Thursday, July 2, 2009

Some more nice news for me

When I awoke this morning, yep I keep doing that, thank goodness; any-who I discovered that I received a lovely additional Happy Birthday greeting in my email on my computer when I turned it back on, actually it came in last night from my old chum from toddlerhood that I reunited with in Facebook and my one and only follower that admits that she reads this Blog, Brava dear old friend.

And when the mail came this afternoon I received a birthday card from those west coast relatives that I was so concerned about with a lovely note included within, updating us on what has been going on in their lives, and that was refreshing and allowed my worries to be put to rest.

I have a habit of saying at what price peace of mind? (I have a tendency to ask that when in some situations that I wrestle with an expense.) And then I usually answer myself and say priceless! And so I was given a priceless gift of peace of mind by that card from my in-laws.

Rain has been slow and at times a rapid steady visitor these last few days here in the sunshine state, but this is the rainy season, so what do any of us expect?
I can tell you what I remembered from years gone by were those days when it rained here it was only maybe an hour or even just a half hour event, but these last two days it has been unrelenting. Just when you think it is all done we get some more, at times a mere drizzle and other times a major downpour! The meteorologists call this training, yes comparing to the cars of a train coming continuously, and yes we have on other occasions had this happen before, or how else would I know that?

While reading the editorial comments in the paper this morning I became extremely impressed with a particular one from a young man ( at the end of the article he stated that he was still just in high school, what you thought I was psychic?) who put an elder who had previously made a biased comment in his place with eloquence and verbiage that was so incredible and appropriate that I am almost embarrassed to admit that he utilized two words that I really were not sure of what they meant, and so me being me I looked them up and now I am proud to say that I am better informed. Not only that I sent an email to the editorial department stating how impressed I was with the brilliance of this young man, and I can only hope they forward it onto him.
Any-who do you, want to know the two words he used that I was not familiar with?
No response, huh? I’ll take that as a yes, and so here they are:

Ad hominem
Function: adjective
Etymology: New Latin, literally, to the person
Date: 1598
1.appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect
2. marked by or being an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made

Deify
Function: transitive verb
Date: 14th century
Results

1 a.to make a god of b.to take as an object of worship

2.to glorify as of supreme worth

I bet you all knew those, huh?
Well, now I do too!

On that informative note I will wish you all a good night and to all count those blessings and I will too!

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