Author: Mark
Go slow … and protect our manatees. Georgia’s.We tend to be pretty possessive in these parts …
(idle = au ralenti)
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definition of “delay”
Unlike the French terms “délai” and “délais” which refer to an expected or planned time frame, the English words delay and delayed mean being late.
Here’s an illustration of a ‘less than an hour” delay:
Once announced, it was, in fact, not only on time but … ahead of the ETA!
Savannah, as you can see, was appropriately named:
There are rivers winding in and out and around.
So it’s probably wonderful to have a boat down here. If you manage to find the time to use it … And if you don’t have a boat, it’s still nice to have a dock on the marshes.
And if you don’t happen to have your own private dock … you’re probably not getting mosquito bites either … but that won’t prevent you from using the one at Lazaretto Creek or at Tybee.
where you can go fishin’ … or crabbin’ … or just make friends and keep an eye open for dolphins …
All you really need is time. So don’t … delay.
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This land … by Woody.
Folk music is all about folk – people, family, friends, you and me and everyone else; individuals coping with life’s everyday cares. Happy ones and sad, hard and sweet.
Folk music provides us with a country’s history because it’s the people’s history … and how can we understand the present without a feeling and grasp of the working people who’ve lived before us, built our railroads, plucked our cotton, suffered the dust storms and prayed for rain? Brought us to where we are? Not only with their successes … but also their failures. Folk is about “everyday” people in touch with their emotions, their strengths, their weaknesses, their environments.
American folk music is so incredibly rich that I’d like to introduce you to a few tunes, stories, people and songs. Far from today’s global political stage, these songs are rooted in everyday experience. Pionners. Immigrants. Roamers.Expressions of work, love, family, discovery.
Without the advent of sound recording, they’d be lost. Fortunately, there are many many recordings and thanks to a fellow whose name was Moses Asch, the Folkways Collection was a lifetime project to guarantee their perennity … and I, at least, am grateful to him and his team for their work. Vanguard Records, too, as well as major and minor labels produced artists whose souls are still very alive.
Folk music is for listening. And here’s one of the classics: Woody Guthrie, of course.
PS.The Folkways Collection put about 2 dozen podcasts on the net for free downloads on iTunes (and maybe elsewhere!) … and this leads me to one of my father’s, bless his soul, favorite sayings:
“A word to the wise is sufficient.”
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round numbers and generalties
What do round numbers and generalties have in common?
They’re always false!
And while I’m tempted to say that ‘down’ here in Savannah everyone’s so nice … it’s probably because we just haven’t encountered the other kind! But kind they are. And while that may be just the generality we want to avoid … the folk I’ve been meeting are hard-working, upstanding friendly souls … the kind Woody Guthrie could have sung about.
Yesterday, I met Lem for the first time. He comes from Darlington, South Carolina. A fine man, finer you’d probably not find: Stephanie said she didn’t take the first one that came along, and not the second or third either…. She waited for the best. And they make a mighty fine couple.
Lem says there are about 6500 people in Darlington and that they’re good folk.
France, too, has lots and lots of real good folk. Just got to get to know ’em.
Sit down to table. Share a few dozen oysters with a Muscadet or a “pot au feu” and a simple red wine and you’ll … start to get to know each other. Not just the appearances but what you’ve got in common … rather than what separates you.
And that involves one of the best qualites we can have: knowin’ how to listen … and knowin’ when to talk.
And that ain’t no generality. Just the plain simple truth.
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Travel & Tourism, France: Reims rhymes with France
For Michel D. .. but not only!
Reims rhymes with France Travel & Tourism Expatica France.
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“We’re not out of the woods yet”
One of my students came across this great expression listening to an interview with the President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Interview by by Calvin Sims.
(There are a number of remarkable interviews in the “Interviews” section of the Video Library at the NYT.)
the woods: you can imagine being in the midst of a forest.
not out of the woods = still lost in the midst of that forest.
not out of the woods yet > while we’re still in the woods, we will eventually get out to a clearing.
“On n’est pas sorti de l’auberge!”
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It’s obvious.
évident, n’est-ce pas ?
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