12/7/2023 0 Comments War strife have come proseccoHowever, I liked writing that blurb about the absurdity of how connected we all are. There was a break down in communication BUT not really because I couldn’t be reached. That was a rather loosely-connected (sorry for the pun) prologue to what really happened today. If you can’t reach me on my phone a/k/a house phone now a/k/a my land-line, then you can call me on my cell phone OR you can send me an email on at least two of my three email addresses OR you can text me and I will get it on my blackberry…SO why is there a problem communicating? I’m living in a world where I am omnipresent -everywhere at all times. So Happy happy birthday Joel, I love you very much and wish I could spend more time with you. I hope to see him in the near future to give him the real hug I sent virtually. I wrote a Happy Birthday greeting on his Facebook wall – aren’t I just the 21st Century Mom and called him this evening. Apparently, some friends from Boston are also flying out to celebrate with them. I have a Norman Rockwell Christmas in mind and they are thinking along the lines of what I heard referred to as Westivus. I think it would be wonderful if we could all be together, however, my feeling is that the kids like it the way it is. This Christmas, like last year, my daughter and her family are headed west to spend the holidays with Joel and we will be here on the East Coast. Posted last December 17th, Happy Birthday Dear Son!ģ000 miles and 3 hours earlier often gets in the way of communication although as any mother knows, if there’s a will, there’s a way. All of it is true and I hope he reads it again because it is full of love and appreciation for who he is. Last year I wrote what I thought was akin to a mother-son love letter so I’m not going to repeat it again. Joel is 41 and Chiara is 35 and now I’m a grandmother myself. Francis Hospital? Apparently yes, because today is my son Joel’s birthday! When my parents and grandparents would tell me how quickly the years go by and at this point they’re flying, I, like every other young person ,didn’t really get it. I just dashed this blog post off this morning without much aforethought and no research so would greatly appreciate reader input!!Ĭould it really be forty-one years ago that I drove myself from my home in Avon CT to Hartford for a doctor’s appointment and then to St. like, random, down, sick) and so on, I wonder what other words have come into our daily vernacular? What words do you know or remember as taking on a new meaning or were or are being used on a much more regular basis? PLEASE let us all know. Other than the slang of youth, their own mis-use and/or decision to re-invent a meaning of a word (i.e. I know a whole blog post could be created just with the language of technology – I could start with Hi-Fi !! Gigabytes, megabytes, micro chips, HTML, beta, VCR, CD, DVD, Tivo, hard drive, software, hardware, firewall, spam, and on and on. Of course the technology of the late 70’s and 80’s and 90’s has brought us not only words but a whole new language. Again the language of war! So sad that it is under severe circumstances that the new words appear or the old ones take on a nuance, we’ve not acknowledged before. Napalm, Agent Orange, guerilla warfare are just a few that come to mind (it was a long time ago). The next influx of terms and words that I remember coming into everyday use, came as a result of the Vietnam War. Well let me amend that by adding astronaut, cosmonaut, sputnik and muttnikwere certainly words I had not encountered up to the point when the USSR and the USA began to race to space. I grew up in the 50’s and other than listening to war stories from my Dad, I don’t remember any new words creeping into our vernacular. Sadly, these two words apply to our state of the world where terrorism, unrest, war and strife are often front page news. Interesting that these two words stand out to me and I am trying to think of some more words that have been co-opted into a use other than perhaps their original meaning and intent. It refers to a journalist or reporter who is traveling along with a platoon or regiment and he or she are embedded with the troops. You hear this word whenever the news is about a war or war zone. It got me thinking about another word that is used again and again in news broadcasts: Embedded. Of course its use and application in this instance made it all the more prominent. This is not a word we use in our everyday conversation and so its use stood out in broadcast. Having spent a good part of last week and this weekend listening to the news channels practically all day, the word radicalization kept popping up. Flag of the United States on American astronaut Neil Armstrong’s space suit (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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