seven
years ago today
I published my first blog post
thank you to all
who have made the time
to stop by for a visit
and sit for a moment.
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“all human actions have one or more of these seven causes:
chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
-aristotle
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painting by: bruce nutting – seven birds of blue
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image credit: glen baxter, new yorker magazine
what began as post #1 in may of 2012
has led to post #2001 today.
thank you to all who
view, read, comment, chat, post, and share.
i appreciate each and every one of you
even in those far away countries
where i may have only 1 loyal reader
you have all offered me
great support
much food for thought
inspiration
and most of all
wonderful human connections.
here’s to the next 2001.
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“i think statistics go in one ear and out the other.
all of us respond to stories more than numbers.”
-koren zailckas
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image credit: metro goldwyn mayer, media.com
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image credit: kerrytown bookfest
September 24th: National Punctuation Day
* “A celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks,
and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the ever-mysterious ellipsis.”
National Punctuation Day gives you the opportunity
to dress up your sentences with all kinds of context and accentuation!
Or, take the day to remind yourself what a semicolon actually does.
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‘i’m tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.’
-steve martin
*(i may not be qualified to celebrate this holiday,
as i endlessly abuse this system of grammatical organization.)
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image credit: goinglikesixty.com
when reading this article about literacy
i was saddened by it
yet i was struck by an typo
not meant to be ironic
that perhaps unknowingly proved the point.
“literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.”
― kofi annan
i hear the grandies’ voices
one reads words out loud
while the other
writes ‘created words’
and mentions,
“maybe i should take a writing class.”
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handwriting is so cool
because it is like
the written equivalent of someone’s voice.
-word porn
