Photo: My hippie-chick, Harley ridin', striper catchin' niece—Lisa.
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
—James Dean
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
—Albert Einstein
I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
—Zelda Fitzgerald quotes (Wife of a American short story writer F. Scott Fitzgerald)
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
—Peace Pilgrim quotes
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All that Jazz—it was sizzlin' HOT!
Last night I had the distinct pleasure of attending a jazz concert at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. Headlining the evenings musical entertainment was the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
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You say Real-ah-tor, I say Realtor—
Have you ever wondered how the English language has proliferated considering how many different ways words can be pronounced and the different connotations we place upon them?
Most English speakers are not aware of the enormous differences between British and American English. A British reader looking at a blog or magazine from Australia or South Africa would not find too many unfamiliar words. However, that is not the case with British English compared to American English. You know, the old saying, "you say tomahto and I say tomato or even tomater.!" It's the proverbial, "English is a common language that divides two nations."
Then there's the differences we encounter within the United States alone. Our use of language is a divergent as our different geographic locations whether it's from New England, the Deep South, the Midwest, the Southwest and all the way to the Pacific Northwest. Equally influential upon our language are the various influences which occur within our family origins from around the world (ethnicity).
History also plays a huge influence upon our language. The Industrial Revolution brought new words to us: railroad, windshield and grade crossing to our vocabulary. The Technology Age, whether it's from media (TV, radio, film) or the advent of computers and the Internet, changes on a daily basis. Within social networking we see new words generated on the fly due to texting, instant chat/messaging, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, etc. Who would have thought terms like EVOO, blog, CD, DVD, laptop, or LOL would become common place and emerge in our conversations as well as dictionaries?
What's important is what you have to say... NOT so much how you say it. So whether you say Real-ah-tor or Realtor—it's all the same to me!
What do you think?
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