The next time you pet your car...

My phone's name is Verity Loud. My last phone's name was George. My computer's name is Francis Lenovo. My brother's computer's name is Opal. Our car is named Christina, but we call her variations thereof ( Katrina, Chris, Christy etc). Yep. I live in a family that names their technology. But are we so weird? Why do we give stuffed animals and dolls to children? Why do we own pets?

The answer is simple. The ultimate way to learn is through scenario. Play is a form of scenario. By creating fake people in our lives, we are teaching ourselves social skills and more importantly... how to love.

Funner

It may finally be in the dictionary, but it still has a bad rep. 
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/funner

Now, at the risk of sounding stupid. Could someone please tell me why "Funner" has such a bad rep?!

"Funner" is a comparative, and comparatives work on adjectives, such as greater, sweeter, greener etc.

 The base word "fun" can be an adjective. Why doesn't it work?

And if "funner" gets jipped, how can we get away with turning an adjective into a verb with the word, "funned"?  As a language pirate, I'm all for it.

I just wish people could tell me if and why "Funner" is grammatically incorrect, and I hope someday, people will take it seriously.

I mean, what sounds better?
 "Life will be funner than a hamster on a wheel" or "Life will be more fun than a wet cat on log?"
If you choose the cat, you're weird. =)

When Love Reigns.

In every major catastrophe in my life the main word on my lips has been "thank you." In the darkest hour, there is always a reason to be thankful. And you know, the offspring of gratitude is joy.

For me, these last few weeks have been dark indeed. But have they? When bad things happen to good people, love reigns. Indeed, due to this reigning love, these days are quite bright.

Significance.

Significant. The word of the day. Find something significant in your life. A person, a moment, memory, amulet, ideal or dream. Something significant to you. Be thankful for it.

Language of America.

Look for the word.

The American Dream

When you picture the American Dream, what do you picture?  California shades and a Ferrari? Money? Mansion? Materials? A simple life out in the country with no worries?

If this is your picture, you’re wrong.

The Dream is not a constant. It’s a goal. It requires sweat. It requires tears. It requires blood. When things don’t work out, when you’re down and unhappy, remember, that is a good thing. It is in the pursuit, not the accomplishment, but the gory pursuit of our imagined dreams that they are made true. Water is stronger than rock. Change does not happen in an instant, but by the hammer's repeated fluid blows.

The American Dream is the freedom to pursue the life we imagine for ourselves.

Walt Disney imagined a world of magic. Losing everything in that pursuit, he hopped on a bus to Los Angeles, owning nothing but a cardboard box, a change of underwear, forty dollars and a side reel of cartoons. Martin Luther King had a Dream. His voice, his life, and death, played out in pursuit of that Dream and now, people of all races celebrate him, side by side.

The list of heroes is endless. All are willing to sacrifice everything for a notion, an idea, imagined life, a belief, a Dream.

But you don’t have to be a hero to pursue a Dream. From teachers to janitors. From lawyers and politicians to social workers and receptionists. From doctors to athletes. In today’s world many invent their own occupation, and many more occupations are yet realized. Even the stay at home Mother who believes her children will improve the world. There are many among us already engaged in the pursuit of the life we have imagined.  

And you know what? When we give our dreams our all, like Disney and King, we succeed…

I have learned this, at least, from my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. –Thoreau.

By this success, the pursuit of those dreams which promise global and local happiness will benefit the nation. Indeed, the most powerful action a US citizen can take, arguably even more powerful than a vote, is the act of this gory pursuit of a imagined, better world.

It is therefore our American obligation to pursue our imagined lives, to pursue our dreams.

 

So. What’s your dream?

Belieber.

I can't Belieber I'm saying this, but there is something about Bieber that encompasses the American philosophy. Perhaps its the importance of Beliebering.