Hello Grafted In Reader,
Today is March 9 in my corner of blog land, 2023.
I am thinking of time today in relation to my developed to-do list.
- Joining and online sport book program comes with needed learning;
- Preparing my forthcoming title, Human Being, Human Doing, has some pre-publication issues to resolve;
- Urging a family member to keep moving forward in life takes minutes but adds up;
- My four-evening per week piano gig is semi-retirement income;
- Being a voracious reader takes 6-7 hours each week;
- Monitoring comments from a recent story having appeared at Https://www.spillwords.com/author/davidcrussell
is pleasurable and happy to see nearly 20 persons read "Puddles and S..t".
Given all the above, and your list too, time keeps going by or slipping into the future as Steve Miller Band sang about 47 years ago. A lot of time slipped since that date!
For cooler conversation, I found this in a recent newsletter by the Grammar Girl.
It's to those of us who either say "um" or "er", within our sentences.
‘Erm’ and ‘Um’
This old piece by linguist Lynne Murphy blew my mind this week. Like Lynne, I have seen hesitations in American English written as “um” and in British English written as “erm,” and I presumed people in Britain pronounced their hesitations differently than we do here. But no, my friends! It’s just that they write the “word” differently because they don’t pronounce R’s the same way.
I will be back to visit in the near future. Thanks for reading, and tell your friends that Mellow Rock is alive, well, too busy, but naps for a good hour each day after his noon meal.
May the Holy One ever be present with us.
Mellow Rock
