Purpose of This Blog

Monday 4:05 p.m.

I have been informed that proper blogging etiquette includes stating a purpose.

One of the things that I enjoy the most in life, is to find some new bit of knowledge, some thing that I have not known before, something that makes you slap your forehead , yell shazam and say “I didn’t know that!”

Knowledge is like dropping a pebble in the water.  Someone else learns it and from that person others learn it and you never know where it will go or where it will end.

I’ll give you an example.  My lil wife and I went on a bus trip last summer.  On the trip we went to Savannah, Georgia and went to visit that Goddess of Gluttony, Paula Dean.  It was spectacular.  After indulging ourselves there, we visited a former slave quarters.  A curator, who was an older African-American, talked to us about the slave culture.

I found out some things I didn’t know and were fascinating. For instance, plantation owners provided slaves with their own church.  In that  church, those with darker skin were seated together toward the back, and those with lighter skin  toward the front.   He told that that they used a brown paper sack to judge color, and a comb which had to run through their hair.’

In Africa, he said that there no sound existed for the ‘TH’ , this, that, those.  I think in phonics it is called a diphthong.  When they arrived in the United States, they couldn’t pronounce that sound,  so they used a consonant.  They began saying dis, dat, dose, dem.

Wow – see, I didn’t know that.  That was a shazam moment.  I love gaining knowledge.

When I was in middle school a teacher gave me a note having the word “loquacious”.  I went to her desk and ask her what it means and she said “When ever you see a new word that you do not know, look it up.” I looked it up and it means talkative.  You can guess what the note was about.  For some reason that resonated with me and for the rest of my life even until today, when I see a new word that I do not know, I underline it and look it up.

Having a large vocabulary enables you to better express yourself.  Many a YMCA contains the saying “Profanity is the attempt of a feeble mind to express itself.” In any event, my purpose in blogging is to learn myself, speak to a broad range of eclectic subjects: sports, philosophy, personalities’, politics, annoyances, and in so doing, perhaps cause others slap their foreheads, and say “I didn’t know that!”

My inspiration comes from newspapers, TV, movies, magazines, and from what I see and observe from the Wal-Mart in Dellwood, Fla to the Wal-mart in Muncie.  God help us all………….