The year in review..yea, right!

I wish to start this review to show empathy with all of my East coast friends. This was the view we awoke to one year ago today.
SNOW, lots of SNOW. The big difference between us and the East coast, is we have no SNOW plows. Please look at the street..
The street has SNOW on it. We here just wait for spring. It happened about 2 weeks later. All the SNOW melted, and it was spring. The inconvenience was not noticed too awfully much by those who stayed indoors and ate SOUP. Pumpkin SOUP, beet SOUP, and bean SOUP made with a wonderfully seasoned honey baked ham bone, smokey, slightly salty, BUTTER rich and smooth to the palate.

Why is palate, and pallet pronounced the same, and yet wallet and BALLET, sound nothing like palate or pallet. The Kings English is truly weird.

Did you all know that SOUPy Sales died this year. A great comedian!

More thoughts regarding language: Evocative phrases.
Global Warming, level playing field, Felitz Navidad, HE WATCHED HER BREATHING. Each sound-bite phrase brings to mind a hundred pictures in my head.

Global warming...see the first picture.
Level playing field.... a phrase thought up by business..which is run by golfers who relish in hills, bunkers, water hazards and sand traps.

Felitz Navidad... I love this sound. It is religious, yet not slapping you up-side the head.

HE WATCHED HER BREATHING.....could be a technician in an ICU..or a pulp fiction novel lover propped up on one elbow closely observing the rise and fall of the covers of the unconscious body next to him. OR



Maybe it could be a Boa Constrictor carefully monitoring the breathing patterns
of the queen waiting patiently to begin squeezing. HE WATCHED HER BREATHING. Language..it is evocative, fluid, exciting, stimulating, evasive, cold as SNOW, hot as SOUP, slippery as BUTTER, and as elegant as BALLET..but I digress. I am reviewing the year.

The ups and downs of the economic climate, the stroking of the the egos of politicians, the passion of all of the special interest groups hoping that the favor of their desires will fall into the health care bill that will allow the relatives of the infirmed to say "HE WATCHED HER BREATHING"

I wish you all a wonderful new year, and I resolve to blog more often, and I want you to know that pope eggs Benedict is watching over you.