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  • 25 Sep 2014
    Language is confusing - I'm not referring to foul or abusive language but just everyday spoken language. I was with a group the other day and this subject can up. It brought to mind that if we're taught a language other than what we speak we don't get the whole picture. Language is like a virus it evolves. For example we can read a book written one hundred years or more and understand it. Yes, there maybe some words we'll have to look up in the dictionary but we can understand it. But the fashion or style it's written in is not how we speak. Another example is I can read a newspaper from another "English" speaking nation and understand most of it but not all - the idioms are different from place to place. Just though I'd get that written - deep thinking?
    2063 Posted by Mary Grace
  • 03 May 2015
    Lately I've been questioning myself about my painting. I have always painted what I see or what I feel like painting. I'm not a commercial artist -I don't make a living painting. I just do it for self satisfaction. Recently I've been looking at other people's painting and they are making a statement or expressing their feelings in their work. That idea shatters my concept of why I paint - should I express my feelings? Do I have anything to say? Does anyone care about what I think. Should I care about what others think?  I don't express my opinions openly for fear of getting things thrown at me....or some such reaction. I think I might try it but what if I become an outcast?  I think I have always been the "odd person out." So, I think I'll start expressing my opinions about my life, my community, my country, politics and possible religion. I'm not certain about religion because that really rattling the cage - so to speak. Well I glad I got that off my chest and I appreciate the opportunity to.....?
    1958 Posted by Mary Grace
  • 31 Dec 2009
    I realize there is a difference between speaking and writing. When speaking the listener can interpret what's being said by watching body language, facial expression and also listening to the tone and loudness of voice. The written word can be easily misinterpreted. Unfortunately, the reader applies the written word to their own demeaner and sometime completely misses the train of thought of the writer.Perhaps this has been a problem from the time mankind started writing things down. I understand that Plato didn't like writing because it would stop people from memorizing. Maybe language is going through the same transition with the advent of texting and tweeting. We'll see.PS I neither text nor tweet. Guess I'm a misanthroupe
    1938 Posted by Mary Grace
  • 14 Dec 2009
    Some people evidently love labels - they just throw them around. Thinking back I 've been called everything from gay, commie to just plain stupid. Does that bother me - yes. I'm being judged by people who aren't qualified to judge. That's my thought for the day.
    1920 Posted by Mary Grace
Society Girl's Personal Blogs 1,000 views Sep 23, 2008
To blog or not to blog

Realizing that any member can read my blog is frightening . True I can read everyone's blog too. But still...it's sort of like reading someone's diary. Got to change my thinking from diary to journal. That's good - a journal - will my thinking change over time? Will my journal show that I've progressed? I think it will -time will tell. (I think Time has a big mouth)

Something clicked in my brain yesterday which I like to mention (in my journal). Unfortunately, this doesn't fit into any forum so I'll put it here.  It is my thinking that when an individual becomes a public figure (elected to government office) then that person loses all semblance of a private life. I know that sounds rather strange. Yes they can have a private life but when? Here in the US we keep hearing of executive privilage, private papers etc. How can someone who is elected to serve the people have privilages that are not public? It doesn't sound right to me.

In business if you are working for a corporation or company and you develope a new process, formula, design or whatever. That new something doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the company. You're being paid by the company so what you do on company time belongs to the company.

Back to the elected official - since their job is not a 9 to 5 job any writing or other activity is within the Public Domain and belongs to the public. Nixon's or Johnson's tapes didn't belong to them -they were public property. I don't like the idea of the need for the Public Information Act. Anything the government produces is the property of the people -the public. This idea of "national security" appears as misuse of power. There have been many instances where it's been proved to be a hiding place for examples of stupidity.

That's enough "journaling" for today.