I doubt it, since summer tends to be a blur of active malaise (I just made that up).
Seems like only yesterday that I was writing about the comic antics of the Wasilla Family Palin.
In between, the true summer season was compressed into a two-week period of Dog Days that barely grew past puppy status.
Now, it's back to a preternaturally cool gloom more reminiscent of Scotland.
So what has motivated this entry?
Simply that over time, I accumulate various free associations that require noting lest they be forgotten.
Random Note One:
I have been keeping track of the tendency for people to cling to pet words or phrases uttered by small children, which then enter their personal vernacular.
"Garbage" descriptively mis-pronounced "Go-bage".
"PMS" transformed into a state of being: "PM Mess".
Even a simple case of childlike observance of a familiar noxious experience into a lifelong recollection shared by the whole family, as in "I smell a skunk" becoming "I mehwa kuk" as tiny fingers hold a button nose. That's how it's now pronounced by all who know.
Or, a five-year old chronicling the gustatory odyssey that was a vacation in Florida with a single notation pertaining to each experience, "thar was good food". To his day, that is the highest compliment any establishment can garner in our family.
There are more, but you get the idea. We all do it, or at least we should. You might make a "ginormous" contribution to the language.
Random Note Two:
The coming months should be an interesting test of the "learning from history" and "teaching old dogs new tricks" axioms. If in fact we are beginning to emerge from the chthonic depths of the Great Recession it will be interesting to see if anything has really changed. So far, we have demonstrated our ability to forget the unspeakable amounts of money dumped into bank and insurer coffers to stave off their demise. It's a collective behavior not unlike using the equity in one's house as an ATM to finance groceries. We'll see.
Random Note Three:
What's with baseball teams that fall out of the pennant race pulling star players out of the line-up with "season-ending" injuries? Can't the procedure wait for the off-season? I thought that this was entertainment. For those prices, fans want to see their heroes. Hurt is hurt, but husbanding resources is theft of services. If Broadway stars gave way to understudies with similar aplomb, the Great White way would go dark from lack of attendance.
Hopefully, the next post will come sooner.
