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− one American citizen’s lengthy contemplation − John McWhorter’s article How to Listen to Donald Trump Every Day for Years in The New York Times differentiated “speaking” in public from “talking” conversationally. He noted that Trump does not “speak” in public. Instead Trump “talks,” as he does, in conversation. McWhorter inferred that the American public is …
Nearly half a century ago an article I wrote was published in a Minnesota newspaper. There is much I could add to the article since becoming a resident of a retirement community nearly two years ago but the original content remains appropriate. Some things change – the Mrs. printed before my name was standard form for 1971. Not so in 2016. Some …
All you who love know the loneliness of loving. All we who love, know. We lovers hear uniquely and distinctly the soul-shattering sound of the loneliness of loving. It’s a sound we can’t escape hearing when we choose to love. It’s a sound we can’t communicate to others. And those of us fortunate enough to …
What is the sound of a cookie to you? The squish of pressing a Hershey’s Kiss into the steaming soft top of a cookie fresh out of the oven sounds perfect, according to thirteen-tear-old Gillian. I love the sound, she exclaimed, as she bent her ear toward her hand that pressed each kiss. The squish! Then she declared for a second time: Cookies …
◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ Voices from any age can provoke our listening. The journey of writing Wisdom From the Central Deep: renderings from “Living Philosophies – A Series of Intimate Credos” began when I pulled a book from the lowest shelf of my husband John’s old oak bookcase. The book’s worn black cover and dulled gold lettering nearly obscured …
