My column today is about letters to the Voices page, and just too inside baseball to post here, I think. Plus, I’m still getting over a mystery bug, so I’ll take this opportunity to get a wee bit of rest. Back at it next week, most likely with words redefined by hyperpartisans. Got one? Let me know!
Jim Wheeler - Rational Skeptic
I'm a retiree in his seventies. That may not be significant to many, since there is a bunch of us Baby Boomers around. However, in the year 2,000, when I received a diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma, I expected to be dead in three to five years.
Life is all about being curious, asking questions, and discovering your passion. And it can be fun!
Try to live and not just exist...
Illustration, Concept Art & Comics/Manga
a collection of ridiculously interesting art, objects, ideas, and history
Cogito Ergo Sum
a dollop of codswallop served with a pinch of salt
What if you spent every day looking for One Beautiful Thing?
The Internet's Band of Incorrigible Spitballers® and Cult Failure Since 2006
The Best of the visual Web, sifted, sorted and summarized
Journalist, author, conspiracy expert
facts + logic = truth
Terrible Writing on the Web. And Writing Terribly Well for the Web
A Miami-based environmental professional & writer.
Smart and surprising
Art and Lifestyle by Brandon Knoll
An Irishman's blog about the English language.
a journey through the imaginative worlds of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Inklings
Paleontologist, Comparative Biologist, Science Writer
making sense of the news one week at a time
Humor at the Speed of Life
Musings of a former hula hoop champion
Essays on Life, Love and Loneliness
connoisseur of fine cake
Kevin Brennan Writes About What It's Like
A curated webspace for Poetry, Politics, and Nature with over 6,000,000 visitors since 2014 and over 9,000 archived posts.
Commenting on developments in the English language
art design & oddities
Nationally Syndicated Editorial Cartoonist
Just another WordPress.com weblog
The blog of Academe magazine
Rating the Bias and Credibility of Media Sources
Serenity is a fuzzy belly 
Get well soon!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thank you!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Feel better soon!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thank you!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I hope you get to feeling better and this mysteriously mysterious mystery bug goes away and leaves you alone.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you!
LikeLiked by 1 person
You’re welcome.
LikeLike
I read your column in today’s Democrat Gazette. A purple sky with green polka dots sounds just like the sky of an alien planet in a science fiction book which I read many years ago.
LikeLike
If the Democrat Gazette is receiving too many so-called “liberal” letters and not enough “conservative” letters, would it help if I sent the newspaper a letter with the one sentence “This is a conservative letter” repeated over and over again? (he asked jokingly)
LikeLike
Hope you be doin’ better Ms. Serenity.
The word that comes to mind is “Sanctuary,” as in a monastery is a sanctuary for the weary and the oppressed, while “Sanctuary City” is a derogatory dismissal of legitimacy — as well as a threat from DC to do wrong to the evil sanctuary metropolis … threat, of course, from the nutheads on the right side of present ideological jargon.
Personally, we all need a bit of sanctuary now ‘n then.
Anyway, I’ve written you before — always in the positive — but I ne’r seemed to figure out how to get past all these boxes.
You the best — JB used to be but he’s fallen deeply into the morass of speculating ’bout contemporary politics. Too much to bear. I’ll take Turner Classics any ole day.
Yours in solidarity (regarding the written word for sure),
Ebenezer Baldwin Bowles
PS: looks like I made it through this time — and yes, that it really my name … same as my grandfather Ebenezer, currently resting in a verdant field outside Holly Grove in the Arkansas River delta.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thanks, Ebenezer (I love that name, almost as much as I love my dearly departed grandpa’s name, Grover)!
Sanctuary is a good one. It’s abominable how certain people are turning positive words into scare words.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Brenda did anyone ever tell you the joke that there is a certain way to thank people when you are in church? You are supposed to say, “Sanctuary Much”.
LikeLike
Is this “evil sanctuary metropolis” named either “Gotham City” or “Metropolis”?
LikeLike