Word Wall

  1. Turning raw stones into sparkly jewelry is simply facet-making.
  2. u fans see referees snafu
  3. There’s no doubt about it. Alger did glare at that large regal lager!
  4. Havin’ an apostrophe’s no sign of atrophy. Not havin’ a trophy’s no sign of catastrophe.
  5. integrity + fluidity = continuity
    continuity + identity = validityvalidity + perpetuity = prosperity
  6. Our hours aren’t ours alone, are they?
  7. Ere lots of thoughts, reams of dreams (streams and streams)
  8. Sing of slings and arrows, but also of love, and tomorrows.
  9. a presumption of madness = a far-gone conclusion
  10. hokey-dinky (hokey + okey dokey + rinky dink)= a little corny, but not bad
  11. Where does truth lie? That’s quite a cunning question, and sly.
  12. Mostly it’s boiled down wisdom that sticks to ribs and helps in crunch time— things like the serenity prayer, ‘children learn what they live’, and ‘rightness rests on a three-legged stool—right action, right time, right reason’, Covey’s 7 Habits, Frankle’s existential motto, Robbins ‘State-Story-Strategy’, the gospels and the sermon on the mount, first Corinthians 13, and Philippians 4: 4-8
  13. It’s wise to widen wide while diggin’ for deep.
  14. Well-roundedness seems pointless until one stands back to see that it is the point!
  15. To quote Vernon Rylands Parton: “Scacetic Philosophy includes the attempt to blend different (more or less antagonistic) speculative systems about ‘scaci” into one unified metaphysic, a universal system, a logical integration… In this Alician tale my Scacetic Soup may taste a little acid and sour to an orthodox sweet tooth. Scacetic art does deal with the Roses, Orchids, and other lovely flowers in Queen Caissa’s gardens. More obvious, it also concerns this Queen’s spiny Cacti!”
  16. To be drawn into dead ends akin to painting oneself into a coroner!
  17. How ironic! I could never remember how to spell or pronounce ‘mnemonic’ until some mixed up men mimed an A- minus ‘Monica’.
  18. summery-summary = hot synop-sauce
  19. Guess Who this is—American Woman’s Come Undone ‘cause there’s No Sugar tonight.
  20. Each vice/virtue counterpart wears the mask of its opposite such that boldness masks timidity and gentleness masks courage.
  21. Who can discern, therefore, between gentleness and timidity? Boldness and courage? Wisdom and foolishness? Strength and weakness? The truth exists, but lurks and broods about, above and below the waters.
  22. Which is the greater peril? A) Taking life too seriously or B) Not taking life seriously enough?
  23. Which are the greater pearls?  Wisdom or grace? Diligence or balance? Patience or urgency?
  24. Acacianally, we wood bark up the wrong tree, but knot too often.
  25. Teaching is E.G. when use of examples is primary.
  26. Time is a Tiger that can’t be bought, caught, or taught but by the tale.
  27. When is an obvious skewer difficult to see?
  28. (When it’s packed into a portmanteau—i.e. ob-skewer)
  29. A king is always asking—ought I—Bring it or have it brought?
  30. Buy it or have it bought? Catch it or have it caught? Seek it or have it sought? Teach it or have it taught?  Think it or have it thought? Be active and do it myself? Be passive and have it done for me?
  31. Researcher held in his hand an abstract and read it. It was quite concrete!
  32. Philosopher held and had in his head the concept of ‘concreteness’. It was rather abstract!
  33. O-U-I
    F     Heed
  34. Oui, yes, we, the teacher and the learner feed one another and heed one another. O(h), you and I,  feed and heed one another.
  35. I’ll be ill if always all alone. We’ll be well if in a deep, cool, wet, thirst quenching community.
  36. We must choose either to lodge in our little abode or to wander about like a vagrant from place to place. We must choose ‘Nomad’ or ‘Hut’. We must choose ‘no matter what’.
  37. An unfancy feline feast and farewell = Cat chow/ciao
  38. Syrup-titious = sweetly sneaky
  39. A few whiffs at life philosophy I offer for free:
  40. Half of life is ‘If you’. Half of life is ‘Have to’.
  41. Fortune favors the free to.
  42. The future is forever fidgeting.
  1. Suppose all one does is pose. All one adds is adipose!
  2. Why couldn’t the kid complain when whacked with a yardstick?
  3. It was deemed a ‘measured’ response.
  4. Oliver hardly finds it funny, Stanley, seeing you resting on your Laurels and Hardy laughs, when those laughs don’t last, and aren’t last!
  5. When drawing a blank and standing on the brink, take courage and faith to the bank. Feed your sole surviving fish in his happy little tank. 
  6. Decayed ego’s stuck on decades ago.
  7. To quote the Tao Te Ching:
  8. “True power seems weak. True purity seems tarnished. True steadfastness seems changeable. True clarity seems obscure. The greatest art seems unsophisticated. The greatest love seems indifferent. The greatest wisdom seems childish. Be content with what you have. Rejoice in the way things are. When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you. There is no greater illusion than fear; no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe. In the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Tao every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is undone. The Master has no mind of his own. He works with the mind of the people. He is good to people who are good. He is also good to people who aren’t good. This is true goodness. He trusts people whoare trustworthy. He also trusts people who aren’t trustworthy. This is true trust. Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao. It springs into existence, unconscious, perfect, free, takes on a physical body, lets circumstances complete it. That is why every being spontaneously honors the Tao. In the beginning was the Tao. All things issue from it; all things return to it. If you keep your mind from judging and aren’t led by the senses, your heart will find peace.” (An intriguing book)
  9. Sometimes the forest;
  10. Sometimes the street;
    Sometimes the hammer;
    Sometimes the nail;
    Sometimes through gritted teeth, endure, and survive.
    Sometimes through a flashing smile, rejoice and thrive.
  11. Didn’t Pinocchio hear his conscience speaking to him?
  12. No.  . . . All he heard was crickets!
  13. My green and tangerine tambourine man’s towering over your head with one hand waving free! (Thus sang Beatle Bob Dylan and the Lemon Pipers)
  14. How should one describe a piquant but polite punster?(Pun-gent)
  15. Whether the boon or bane waxes or wanes, seeing disagreeability as disagreeable seems sane all the same. ‘Cause I care more than one whit, lick, jot, tittle, or iota.
  16. Brush and scrub
  17. Bushes and shrubs
    And out come
    A rash of red radishes
    And scrubs
    Who blush and eat meekly
    Hubris, however,
    Eats meat, burns bluish, and
    Grows a Big Brain
  18. “Bob Rodriguez”
  19. Sugarman shook
    The tambourine;
    Tambourine man
    Shook the sugar down
  20. We see optics in politics may make it tick, but tick people off too.
  21. This soup has chicken and rice like grains of pasta in it.
  22. Orzo they say!
  23. Each peach
  24. Perched atop
    A tree
    Precariously
    Hovering
    Precipitously
    On twigs
    Half in heaven…
  25. ESL-ers live off and on the languid edge of the language adage.