Tag: Scotland

Turns of Phrase That Caught My Attention (part 2)

This is my second post in a series of unknown length. (I had never planned to make it a series of posts.) You can read the first list of four turns of phrase that caught my eye at this link. A reminder of what this post is (from the first post): On occasion I come across an expression that really… Continue reading

Sir Sean Connery, RIP

How quickly time goes by. I had no idea Sean Connery was 90 years old! I always liked his acting and the roles he would choose to play. I found this anecdote about him, from Wikipedia, interesting: Connery’s first job was as a milkman in Edinburgh with St. Cuthbert’s Co-operative Society.[22] In 2009, Connery recalled a conversation in a taxi:When… Continue reading

Heart Warming

Yesterday I listened to a presenter at Emory who reminded me of something I read years ago when he said it, “The opposite of love isn’t hate. It’s fear.” We live in such fearful times. And I don’t think all fear is unhealthy at all. But this free hugs movement, started by Juan Mann a few years back, points us… Continue reading