Wordage: FREELY BORN WORDS

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Unless otherwise attributed Freely Born Words are created by Abby Freeborn and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. If you have a different source for any of the words listed above, please comment so proper acknowledgement  can be made.
 
Ignorrance ( ig`nor`rance) - 1 (n) the capacity to avoid distraction of focus (e.g., “When he's reading, he is capable of great ignorrance.”); 2 a willful lack of attention, especially by a child (e.g., “Her ignorrance falls just shy of defiance.”)

Aguessment (a`guess`ment) – (n) tests and efforts by medical practitioners to determine and explain the various processes of diseases and aging (e.g.,“This Cat-scan and blood work are inconclusive. We’ll send them to our specialist for her aguessment.)

Transectional (tran`sec`tion`al) - (n) 1. a singer of one voice singing another voice (e.g., "Our chorus is short on tenors so I need some transectional altos and baritones in some parts of Mozart’s Requiem."), 2. a worker who has jobs in more than one department of the business (e.g., “The guy on the backhoe; he’s transectional. Two days a week he does filing and mans the phones in the office.”)

Da Kine Stories: RUNAWAY

One evening in the spring of 1989, while on spring break from her senior year of college, my 22 year old daughter wistfully remarked. “I sure would like to live and work in Annapolis, but it’s too expensive.”

“Not for you, I replied. “You can live at home.”

“Oh I would LOVE to live at home! But not with my MU-THER”

“Great! You take care of the house and I’ll go to Hawai`i.”

“Would you really?”

“Would you really?”

“Deal!”

Gitalongs: YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR WAKE

If your words, silence, action, or inaction purposely or inadvertently interfere with or hurt another, it is up to you to restore equilibrium as sincerely and quickly as possible, immediately taking the time required to do so – a quick apology for a bump, a full scale pick-up-dust-off for a knock-down. Defense and denial are wastes of time and pervert human interaction and harmony.

You are Responsible for Your Wake by Abby Freeborn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. For Permission to use contact randmxcentric@gmail.com

Politics: AN OPEN LETTER TO OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN STRATEGISTS

Dear David Plouffe, David Axelrod, Jim Messina, et al,

I get ten pleas for money every day, but asking for money is not enough! Your grassroots are parched and burned out just trying to survive. We need HELP from YOU in working to re-elect President Obama!

HOPE IS NOT AS STRONG AN EMOTION AS FEAR SO MUST BE COMBINED WITH EVIDENCE TO BE NOURISHED AND EFFECTIVE.

A PICTURE IS WORTH 1,000 WORDS AND WE ARE SICK OF WORDS.

Here are some suggestions from a grass roots campaigner for Obama who doesn't want to lose! HELP US restore hope, counter Republican spin and get Barack Obama re-elected. He has done both wonders and blunders so let’s maximize the former and minimize the latter and strive to circumvent campaign rhetoric. Give us concrete facts in concrete form, please?

The Kitchen Sink: CRUSTY SAYINGS

With apologies to whomever may have said this before the source cited:

It takes a child to make a man out of a boy. P.H.Harrison,Jr. 

Crusty Sayings collected by Abby Freeborn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. For permission to use or to correct a source contact randmxcentric@gmail.com

Parenting: POOR PARENTING CAN TEACH GOOD PARENTING

As I was growing up there was one thing my parents tried to practice with me that I vowed never to do to my kids. Raised by authoritarian parents themselves in the early 1900s, they felt entitled to immediate, unquestioning obedience “because I'm your mother,” or “Because I said so,” or “ No back-talk from you, young lady!”  When I was caught smoking at age 14, my chain-smoking father chastised me:”Do as I say, not as I do,” and he meant it. Hmmmm - what’s a kid learn from that?

I have always had a strong need to understand and personalize what I am expected to do and why. This enables me to take full responsibility for my actions. I felt these parental pronouncements to be very disrespectful so they provoked more questions and usually led to arguments, sometimes punishments.

The Kitchen Sink: CHRISTMAS 2011 - THE BIRTH OF A NEW TRADITION

As Christmas commercialism bears down upon us, popping up from behind the displays of leftover Hallowe’en candy, this item is making the rounds on email. A friend sent it to me and didn’t know who wrote it. I found it again by Google Search at Post A Day 2011/ Wordpress Challenge.  Kudo’s to whomever wrote it and thanks for the sanity. I share it here as a thoughtful way to make Christmas giving in 2011 a more personal, relevant and American experience.  Just don’t forget: Thanks-giving comes first. Enjoy:

Christmas 2011 - The Birth of a New Tradition

NOTE: NO OFFENSE: you can Insert your Country for the same gift giving New 2011 Traditional Ideas

As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into high gear to provide Americans with monstrous piles of cheaply produced goods — merchandise that has been produced at the expense of American labor. This year will be different. This year Americans will give the gift of genuine concern for other Americans. There is no longer an excuse that, at gift giving time, nothing can be found that is produced by American hands. Yes there is!