by Morning Reflections | Jul 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
Don’t be an idiot. Be polite. If those two sentences don’t appear to be natural go-togethers, it’s because we’ve lost track of the origin of a pair of words that were once intimately related. Let’s start with the Greek word idiotes (id-ee-OH-tays). In ancient times...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the vast majority of human languages, nouns and verbs have all the fun. Those forms of speech are usually at the center of the action when it comes to communication.Prepositions, however, aren’t far behind. That’s because they express relationships...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Venice Academy of Arts Everyone agreed that it was a wonderful painting – Paolo Veronese’s ginormous depiction of Jesus and his disciples at the Last Supper. But was it really a religious painting? Church authorities in Venice in 1573 were...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
“If you could live forever, would you want to, and why?”That’s the question that the host of the 1994 Miss USA competition posed to Miss Alabama, Heather Whitestone. She memorably replied, “I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
In 2004, a 15-year-old student turned an extra credit project into a national movement. California high schooler Shauna Fleming was unsettled when she heard a news report that American military personnel serving overseas were feeling unappreciated on the home front. ...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
On July 14, 1789, a Parisian street mob stormed the Bastille, a state prison that symbolized the oppressive regime of King Louis XVI. Today is Bastille Day, the French version of America’s Fourth of July. It commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution. The...
