Blizzard. Well, it finally stopped snowing and blowing. Our house is completely blocked in by drifting snow... but it is a nice sunny day just the same. Our over the hill neighbor that we call "Burnie" has his driveway and walkways already completely shoveled. I think he had his wife shovel... or, maybe he has a snow blower. It looks like one of the fences near his property is almost collapsed from the snow.
Tearing up
I'm listening to the music from the musical Carousel on XM radio. I really like that music... and some of the songs make me tear up. Billy Bigelow says: "... The sky's so big, the sea looks small..."
"If I love you, time and again I would try to say.. all I want you to know.... round in circles I'd go... longing to tell you, but afraid ....soon you'd leave me... never, never to know.. how I love you, if I love you."
When I hear this, I remember my late wife, Elaine, ...who did leave me... but I hope she knew how much I loved her.
Repent, you Sinners!
On this morning's TED radio hour, the subject was the seven deadly sins. Some ideas about each were spoken in an interesting manner, I thought.
LUST: The speaker said that lust is not a sin.. it is a natural thing for certain mammals, such as humans, apes and dolphins. Other creatures only desire sex when the female comes into estrus.
GLUTTONY: The speaker was the mayor of Oklahoma City, who was appalled by the city's inclusion in a list of places with the most obese citizens. So, he put the whole city on a million pound diet... when this goal was reached, he found that the city was no longer on the "most obese" list, but, instead was on the "fittest" list.
SLOTH (APATHY): Yes.. why are Americans so apathetic when it comes to voting? Now, politics seems to be a spectator sport. The speaker said that you must become greedy and get into politics to help obtain what you and your neighbors need. Cultural barriers need to be overcome.
ANGER (WRATH): The speaker said that gun violence is a contagious disease that is catching. In an attempt to treat this disease, a group called Cure Violence has been formed. This group is concerned in finding what/who is infecting their neighbors, isolating it/them and curing them.
GREED: The speaker reminded everyone that as the "haves" continue to amass more and more wealth through greed.. the "have nots" will get out their pitchforks. A small, but potent first step that the "haves" should take is to get legislation passed to raise the minimum wage. The Middle Class needs to grow!
ENVY: The speaker reminded everyone that envy is universal... even babies get jealous. He said that it is a good thing.. because it causes the envious to work harder to succeed.
PRIDE: A famous case of "Hubris brought down" occurred when IBM's Watson computer defeated the Jeopardy champion.
What can be learned from WAIT, WAIT, DON'T TELL ME!
1. Winter cliché terms, not to be used on the radio:
big chill
hunker down
deep freeze
snowpocalypse
white stuff
snowed in
2. The 7th level of Hell.. is the cold one....true? I will not check this because Dante's Inferno has not been my favorite reading material. When I have tried to read it, I fell sound asleep.
3. In Britain, the Government tried to stem the influx of men trying to bring their "wives" into the country. They started to ask the husbands about the color of their wife's undies. Guess how long that lasted.
4. A new gymnastic move has been approved for the Olympics... it's called "The Dick Move".. this is named after the inventor, Melissa Dick.. why? were you thinking of something else? Shame on you!
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