Names like Silverman have a history that connects the named with an occupation. Surnames were a later development in the human community.
It used to be that you would be directed to find Max. He’s the blacksmith. Max the blacksmith might become Max Smith in a shortening of his trade.
The mob, if gangster films teach us anything, will use a trait to identify a comrade in arms. Joey Triggers or Tony Safes might be a moniker in use. Since Joey and Tony come from a long line of Capistranos and Conamores they already have a last name. If they’d lived in the middle ages, the nickname would stick for the next generations.
Aaron Judge may be in the wrong field yet as an outfielder he broke Roger Maris’ home run record this year. Judge him not or judge him great.
Mike Hammer should’ve been a carpenter but The Carpenters were definitely, based on their name not their talent, in the wrong line of work. Perhaps they should have been called The Singing Carpenters.
(Yes I do know that Mike Hammer was a fictional sleuth.) MC Hammer, like The Carpenters, also finds himself in the singing game with Grammys to prove it’s for real.
I am certain you know a Singer who can’t or a Taylor who doesn’t? It’s such wonderful symmetry when the name and the doing align.
The Emmy-winning writer from Schitt’s Creek, David West Read has a great name for what he does.
Sleep and convalescence are today’s topics. If you feel the exploration of this lulling you into the first aforementioned, perhaps it’s my expository skill at ye olde bedtime story. This staple of the nursery is now recommended for adults!
Speaking of adults, my friend Bill W. (No not 12 step b.w.) shared a Karl Jung YouTube. Pertinent quote for us today: “life truly does begin at 40; everything up until then is research.” On the very plus side, this also makes us all much younger. At 41 you have only been an adult for one year as I see it.
Don’t cry yet but I am also going to have to introduce the onion in this health alert. It appears that it is full of natural antibiotics. Who (besides Nat Geo from whence I was schooled on all 3 subjects) knew?
If the health benefits of that extremely healthful vegetable have not had the full benefit, you may be obliged to recuperate. In the not so distant past, you might have benefited from a long slow recovery period known to all as convalescence. It is coming back in vogue among the medical professionals.
Don’t expect a longer welcome while in hospital. Beds and staff are still in short supply. But do lounge about at home, having spouse and friends do for you while you take the time to get better.
Oh, and have someone prepare a nice salad with clementines, kiwi, avocado and onions- lots of them. Bermuda is a favorite, but I hear tell that the Sunion is designed to not bring you to tears.
If it does come feathered Will it fly only to rest on An aerie, perching high Above, beating its wings Aspiring for the clear sky? "That thing with feathers," As Ms. Dickinson calls it, What does hope expect? Will wishes will it to soar?
Will she ever tire of the sky? The clouds just hanging there Will they bore her, inactive as They are. Floating as if the Sky was their backyard pool Clouds have wispy outlines; Their inner lives are nebulous. She has to read into what she Sees to find meaning in their Station in the sky. Doesn't it All look the same from day to Day? So little movement to Move her as she stares up! Will she ever tire of the sky?
The morning light exerts its power There is magic in the colors it reflects It's as if a spell is cast over all that I see. Suddenly as those beams pull Away, a new skyline emerges, more Subdued, subtle as quiet as the dawn
After getting caught in a deluge just outside the reach of scaffolding, I had a chance to rethink my attitude towards rain.
I don’t want to undermine the effects of weather events that ruin communities, take lives, and devastate an entire region like Puerto Rico or Louisiana.
It’s just that on many occasions we let an ordinary rain ruin our mood. We let it drive us indoors when we’d rather be out.
It’s true that so often on those sultry days, it does nothing to relieve the heat.
Today it cooled the temperatures so they matched the feel of the steely skies.
All The Best 