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Extending Thanksgiving

November 23, 2018 Comments Off on Extending Thanksgiving

Let’s extend Thanksgiving a day…no, a lifetime. If prayer (or God) isn’t your thing, substitute whatever guiding force you use in your life, maybe simply “Conscience.” It’s the content here that matters, not necessarily who we express it to.

Thanksgiving Prayer
Oh, God, when I have food, help me to remember the hungry;
When I have work, help me to remember the jobless;
When I have a warm home, help me to remember the homeless;
When I am without pain, help me to remember those who suffer;
And remembering, help me to destroy my complacency and bestir
my compassion.
Make me concerned enough to help, by word and deed, those who
cry out for what we take for granted. — Samuel F. Phgh

 

 

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A By-and-Large Day

June 13, 2018 Comments Off on A By-and-Large Day

I’m feeling word-ish today. Which means that you get some (what I think is interesting) background on a phrase we hear often, “by and large.”

Would you believe that the common expression “by and large” was originally a nautical term? “Large” meant that the wind was to a ship’s back as it sailed (a good thing), and “full and by” meant that the ship was headed into the wind (not good). “By and large” indicated that the ship was sailing through changing, unpredictable winds that hit them from varying directions. Somehow that came to mean what it does today in common usage–“for the most part” or “all things considered.”

So, dear readers, I wish you a day that is, by and large, not by and large.

 

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