Monday Moments

Monday Moment - I love Fran Lebowitz. Her dry humor can crack me up. She's awesome with words. I loved this Instagram meme from her last post.    Too true.    Gotta read, folks. Gotta read. 

 And this killed me, truly made me die inside.  The Dallas Morning News has a News Quiz on Tuesdays.  Here's the Newsplace for 3/22/2022.  Hello......question mark.  I hope my readers know that what is marked is France.   Their answer was Spain.  From the news, that was the correct answer - extra Sahara dust did blanket Spain.  BUT - the DSM education department (??) picked the wrong country to mark.   Serious duh. 

Texas is busy banning books - is one of them a geography book?  Are there no proof readers at the News?

Yes, I wrote them a correction notice and they did post it on Wednesday.  Huge sigh, though. 

And that's our Monday Moments.  Have a good week

Pet Delights, Not Peeves

Steve Blow, from the Dallas Morning News, had an excellent Sunday column about what he called pet delights. Instead of pet peeves, which are easy to list, he has a list of the small joys in life. Things you take for granted, but are truly special. Just little moments or things.

 

It got me off the couch to take a picture of these flowers in our back garden. Admittedly August in Texas gets dry and crusty. However, these flowers appear in the morning. By the time we get home from work most days they are shut down. But on the weekends, when we are likely to be on the patio in the morning, Ray and I marvel at the colors and delicate loveliness.

 

Now that's a pet delight.

 

I'm also going to list the comic strip "Pearls Before Swine", brownies, Ray's sour cream enchiladas, the earnest expression of kids telling you something and you have no clue what they are saying, the opening notes of Boston's More Than a Feeling, the first view of Tara in Gone With the Wind, sitting on my dad's front porch (the home where I grew up), reading any book by Anne Tyler, getting mail that's not a bill or junk.

Oh  there's so much more.

 

What are your pet delights?

Master the Job

Bask in the glow of the new year, embrace the world, and seek to put your mark on it.

The Dallas Morning News (Sunday, January 3, 2010) business section featured quotes from various community leaders and I was struck by many of their thoughts and inspirations. Today I quote Ms. Adelfa Callejo, attorney, who likes the saying, "Be a master of the job before you. Be a student of the job above you. And be a teacher of the job below you."

I shall heed these words as I work on re-writes today and study other writers.