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Friday, February 15, 2013
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Nemo finds us
It was The Weather Channel who came up with the idea of naming winter storms. As Ned "the bull" Ryerson says in Groundhog Day, "it's a doozy." So, what are you doing while we are snowed in in the Northeast? I'm starting a new blog and I hope that you enjoy it.
Nemo has really socked it to New England, but down here in upstate New York we've gotten our share of show. It's about eight inches deep outside my front door. If you live in the Twin Tiers of New York and Northern Pennsylvania, cheer up. It's blizzard conditions around New York City, and New England's got up to three feet of the white stuff.
WHCU-AM in Ithaca is reporting 30 car crashes being investigated in Onondaga County. Undaunted, the Syracuse Crunch AHL hockey team says "Game On" no matter what.
It hasn't been a very snowy winter in upstate, but hopefully this latest snowfall will be good for our ski areas and skiers. Otherwise, it's good exercise to shovel the driveway and walks. That's where I'm headed, how about you?
Nemo has really socked it to New England, but down here in upstate New York we've gotten our share of show. It's about eight inches deep outside my front door. If you live in the Twin Tiers of New York and Northern Pennsylvania, cheer up. It's blizzard conditions around New York City, and New England's got up to three feet of the white stuff.
WHCU-AM in Ithaca is reporting 30 car crashes being investigated in Onondaga County. Undaunted, the Syracuse Crunch AHL hockey team says "Game On" no matter what.
It hasn't been a very snowy winter in upstate, but hopefully this latest snowfall will be good for our ski areas and skiers. Otherwise, it's good exercise to shovel the driveway and walks. That's where I'm headed, how about you?
Sundry
Sundry? I know it's an old word, but it's still a good one. Sundry: as an adjective it means "of various kinds, several." Okay, so that makes Various and Sundry redundant, but the phrase has been around a long time.
How about this: as a noun sundry means "Various items not important enough to be mentioned individually."
Isn't life often like that? The sundry parts of our lives are so often disparate and seemingly inconsequential, but when you add all the sundry parts together there is a mosaic. That mosaic is our lives and that is hardly inconsequential. The mosaic of our lives includes people, events, thoughts, perceptions, everything that touches us. When you put all the sundry items together there is a pattern.
Socrates famously said that the "unexamined life is not worth living," although the statement is sometimes credited to Aristotle. In either case, it is important to reflect on our lives, and this site is a reflection on mine, and I hope yours as well. If you find something that clicks for you, please comment. Conversations are the stuff of life and together we can make better sense of the various and sundry pieces of our lives.
How about this: as a noun sundry means "Various items not important enough to be mentioned individually."
Isn't life often like that? The sundry parts of our lives are so often disparate and seemingly inconsequential, but when you add all the sundry parts together there is a mosaic. That mosaic is our lives and that is hardly inconsequential. The mosaic of our lives includes people, events, thoughts, perceptions, everything that touches us. When you put all the sundry items together there is a pattern.
Socrates famously said that the "unexamined life is not worth living," although the statement is sometimes credited to Aristotle. In either case, it is important to reflect on our lives, and this site is a reflection on mine, and I hope yours as well. If you find something that clicks for you, please comment. Conversations are the stuff of life and together we can make better sense of the various and sundry pieces of our lives.
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