Many people who made their marks on my listening skills over the years.
Somehow when they spoke I actually would shut up and perk up those two oraffixes on either side of my head that allow sound to be distributed throughout the cerebellum et al to try and comprehend the verbal discourse resoundingly vibrating the airwaves that TV transmitted.
Erma Bombeck, Andy Rooney, even Johnny Carson would cause a stop and stir in my too verbose communicator below my nose.
Oh how I would actually enjoy their ways of expression from the euphemistic to the cut to the chase to the blatant in your face commentary. Always with a flair of intellect and humor of touching the relateable reality in all of us.
Politically incorrect at times as well as right on target with describing the absurd in all of our lives that had been newsworthy.
Seeing through it all and coming out the other end with a take that we would find agreeable.
Yep, in our heads saying: yeah so true.
Those were talents inborn.
Are they lost?
Shall we ever see the likes of them again?
I don't know, but I hope so.
Some have come close, and so the search will continue for my attention span is dwindling so I hear, eight seconds these days, but I respectfully disagree. My attention is being saved for truly interesting to listen to folks that's all; so there and yes once again I have stuck my adult tongue out at you who claim otherwise!
On that note of the true loss of the voices to be heard to learn from, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
PS My theory about our attention span dilemma perhaps we need quality sounds to listen to, since everything else just seems to be white noise at times, hmm?
Somehow when they spoke I actually would shut up and perk up those two oraffixes on either side of my head that allow sound to be distributed throughout the cerebellum et al to try and comprehend the verbal discourse resoundingly vibrating the airwaves that TV transmitted.
Erma Bombeck, Andy Rooney, even Johnny Carson would cause a stop and stir in my too verbose communicator below my nose.
Oh how I would actually enjoy their ways of expression from the euphemistic to the cut to the chase to the blatant in your face commentary. Always with a flair of intellect and humor of touching the relateable reality in all of us.
Politically incorrect at times as well as right on target with describing the absurd in all of our lives that had been newsworthy.
Seeing through it all and coming out the other end with a take that we would find agreeable.
Yep, in our heads saying: yeah so true.
Those were talents inborn.
Are they lost?
Shall we ever see the likes of them again?
I don't know, but I hope so.
Some have come close, and so the search will continue for my attention span is dwindling so I hear, eight seconds these days, but I respectfully disagree. My attention is being saved for truly interesting to listen to folks that's all; so there and yes once again I have stuck my adult tongue out at you who claim otherwise!
On that note of the true loss of the voices to be heard to learn from, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
PS My theory about our attention span dilemma perhaps we need quality sounds to listen to, since everything else just seems to be white noise at times, hmm?