My sister, trying to comprehend something, said, “I just can’t wrap my teeth around it.” According to a Library Journal article by Stephen Abram that Sally forwarded, the Chinese representation of the word for change combines the characters for danger and opportunity. Perhaps they see the relationship between the two as equal. I don’t. This is how I’d draw it, based on my current experience. The round thing, of course, is opportunity.
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A gathering of words
Broken Hearts
Poor Mamma Ginna. She’s had another stroke. She can no longer walk and can barely talk, she’s frail and confused, and she hurts. I asked her daughter-in-law, who visits her each day in the hospital in West Virginia, to send her my love. All Mamma Ginna could do was smile. Looks like she may not make it till August when we’re flying back to visit her. She’s always saying to me, “I wish you lived […]
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A new classic for my overheard-quotation collection: “When I think of what those people went through, it just makes the hair on the back of my legs stand up” —TJM
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I don’t believe a blog is the place to talk about my Real Life, particularly not in its current state of multifaceted suckage. Instead I bring you random pearls lovingly gathered over the past few days. In the June issue of Tiny Joy, the newsletter of Sweet Maria’s Coffee, the owner describes how he’s drowning in new coffee samples, stashed in every cranny of his office. Occasionally there are the escapees, loose green coffee now […]
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