CHANGES IN STORE

You will see some changes in this blog. I have been pondering about adding more things to Frappy for some time. I believe that I have a very creative and intelligent following and, therefore, I want to stimulate, create, and educate. Changes include biography, postings of readings and poetry recitations, essays, and prose to name a few. You will still get 'Food for Thought' and 'Today's Word' but more needs to to be added to keep things fresh.

I look forward to your comments, suggestions, critcisms, and opinions. Please don't afraid to criticize because I always feel that it gives me another way to look at things. Peace

Mocha

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

As the family goes, so goes the whole nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

-Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)

TODAY'S WORD

SUBTERFUGE

1. Deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade.

2. A deceptive device or stratagem.

POEM

A GOLDEN DAY

I found you and I lost you,
all on a gleaming day.
The day was filled with sunshine,
And the land was full of May.

A golden bird was singing
Its melody divine,
I found you and I loved you,
and all the world was mine.

I found you and I lost you,
All on a golden day,
But when I dream of you, dear,
It is always brimming May.

~Paul Laurence Dunbar

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him
how to fish and you feed him for a life time.

-Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher

TODAY'S WORD

NEE

1. Used to identify a woman by her maiden family name.

2. Originally or formerly called

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

-Florence Nightingale, English activist (1820-1910)

TODAY'S WORD

ANAPHORA

1. Repetition of a word or expression at the beginning
or sucessive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses
esp. for rheotorical or poetic effect

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things.
A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out
a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that
on stage.

-Cab Calloway, American musician (1907-1994)

TODAY'S WORD

OBLOQUY

1. A strongly condemnatory utterance: abusive language

2. The condition of one that is discredited: bad repute

TODAY'S WORD

PAN-

A combining form meaning; all (pantheism)

The union of all branches of a group (Pan-American)

TODAY'S WORD

SASHAY

Walk, glide, go
To strut or move in an ostentious or conspicious manner

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

-John Adams, American President (1735-1826)

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

A real book is not one that we read,
but one that reads us.

-W.H. Auden

TODAY'S WORD

INTERSTICE

1. A space that intervenes between things
esp: one between closely spaced things

A gap or break in something continuous

ESSAY

It has been said that every one has a story to tell. No two stories are the same. No story should be minimized or dismissed. It is from the stories and experiences examples of others that life is enriched.

When I have heard others testimonies of tragedy and triumph and it shows that I am no different than that person. Stories aren't always in words, either. It can be a child overcoming a life threatening disease. It can be a man or woman once strung out on drugs and alcohol living happy productive lives. A story can be told by example. More stories should be told and heard.

In our celebrity conscious culture, the stories of ordinary people are drowned out by 'sensational' stories. I'd rather listen to a stroy about someone who has learned to read than what color dress some actress is wearing. As writers, we should glean whatever we can from others stories. Great writers touch the heart and soul of its readers. Let's find those stories and tell the world about them.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Those who are quick to put labels on others
hate having one put on them.

TODAY'S WORD

PERMEATE

1. To spread or diffuse through


2. To pass through the pores or interstices of.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Learn something new every day.

TODAY'S WORD

DEONTIC

That which is obligatory

Of or relating to moral obligation

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.

-Maimonides, Spanish philosopher, (1135-1204)

TODAY'S WORD

DI-

Twice; twofold double

Containing two atoms, radicals, or group

TODAY'S WORD

INCIPIENT

Beginning to come into being or to become apparent

an~solar system
evidence of~racial tension

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty;
inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

-Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist (1804-1864)

SAME SOUND, DIFFERENT SPELLING

GAMBLE
To play a game for money or property
Take a chance

GAMBOL
A skipping or leaping about in play.