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29.  My sister Amoret writes, "I got your stickers! They are wonderful. I will share them with my 14 'cohorts' in my program at Appalachian. I'm on campus right now! Ha ha ho ho he he as David used to write!" and soon thereafter, in another e-mail, "Lord Have Mercy you are so articulate. You inspire me to clarify my thoughts so I can communicate with panache!" All I've been doing, really, is having a (Dream) I'm in a forest of words all spelled corectly, my words peeking out from among them all mispelled, which somehow makes me rougish and awfuly bad! (Fin) The "Lord Have Mercy" she's referring to is the comment I left at the newyorker.com website yesterday. It reads, "I've been doing cutting-edge research on ways to keep your mind from spinning around moments after you hear or overhear verbal abuse. My website, http://www.taxi1010.com , 'Non-escalating Verbal Self-Defense,' frames verbal abuse in terms of a problem and a solution to the problem, rather than in terms of an oppressor and the oppressed. This disarming method has a long history outside academia, which sort of makes sense. Anyway, there is a mathematics to it in the sense of many things to learn! People start studying multiplication tables in grade school. Why not linguistic tables promoting 'Street Smarts?' >>> POSTED 8/22/2012, 6:27:58PM BY RICHARDAMESHART" The New Yorker website scrupulously avoids making the "http://www.taxi1010.com" in the comment a hot link, which saves them a lot of grief, I suppose. I don't think this lifting of my own words from another website as garden variety plagiarism, either. It's more like sowing the seeds. I did hyphenate "cutting edge" in this here version. That way I can have my own cake and eat it, too!