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Peachy-Keen
Peachy-Keen…an old expression from the 1950s. It has fallen out of use, like so many of the slang phrases that each generation creates. I have a vague memory of a bobby-sox clad teen from an old movie saying it, and I…
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Mind the Gap Revisited: Stand in the Gap
As I think again about the admonition to Mind the Gap and my reflections on it (published 11.1.19 in Awareness), the idea about gaps and separations could bear more scrutiny. I recall an old and dire pronouncement about gaps that comes…
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Mind the Gap
The signs are everywhere in the London Underground. They pop up at every tube station– that ubiquitous and efficient message to Mind the Gap between the edge of the platform and the doorway to the train. The phrase has become a…
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Tinker Bell
I’m thinking about Tinker Bell this morning…not the scantily clad tiny blonde of Disney’s animated creation, or even the glowing but rather stout fairy described by J. M. Barrie in his original story Peter Pan. I will always associate Tinker Bell…
