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Hold Onto Your Hats

This expression makes me think of the first automobiles that were open, no roof, and ladies riding along with their hats tied on to their heads. The gentlemen probably did need to hold on to their hats unless they were snug fitting caps. It must have been fun but you probably needed googles to keep the dust out of your eyes. The expression, “Hold onto your hats,” can mean you’re in for a suprise or something exciting.

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Automobilists coats 1908-1910 via Wikipedia

Family in driving googles via Simpleinsomnia on Flickr

This is my post for Stream of Consciousness Saturday hosted by Linda G Hill. The prompt today was, “your, you’re, yore.” Featured image Franklin Auto 1909 via Wikipedia.

The Sex Life Of The Date

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In Indio, California just off Highway 111 is Shields Date Garden. They are all about dates and the Coachella Valley grows 90% of the world’s dates according to a post in Conde Naste Traveler. If you happen to visit Shields, you can purchase dates and other date products and watch a short film about the sex life of the date. One thing I would recommend you try, especially if you are there on a hot day, is their date shake. A delicious milk shake made with their special ingredient, date crystals, and the usual vanilla ice cream and milk. Or if you like it in a more solid form, date ice cream. And, according to the previous mentioned post in Conde Naste Traveler, the date shake is the unofficial drink of Palm Springs.

Shields Date Garden

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This little post of travel trivia is for Stream of Consciousness Saturday hosted by Linda G Hill. Today’s prompt is “date.” Images of Shields Date Garden by Ken Lund on Flickr, image of DVD via Shields.

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Cachet

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That which defines you. Your signature quality. Your mark. What you are known for. What sets you apart and indicates the approval of your peers or your society. Good Houskeeping Seal of Approval. Having lots of cash does not give you cachet. Well maybe it does with some people. Wealth is a hollow cachet if there is no character or integrity to go along with it.

Stream of Consciousness Saturday is hosted by Linda G Hill. Prompt word for today is “cash.” Featured image is Brand by The Blue Diamond Gallery.

Exit Stage Left

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There was a cartoon character when I was a kid called Snagglepuss. A pink lion who was known to say, “Exit, stage left!” when he got in trouble and wanted to make a quick getaway. He would also exclaim, “Heavens to Murgatroyd!” in exasperation. I feel like saying it now when I read about all the crazy stuff in the news about a certain Presidential candidate and how Russia and Wikileaks may be trying to interfere in our elections. It is so scary but I have faith that the US and her people will be all right in the end. But I would like to tell those who want to poke their noses in our business, please get lost, scram, and exit stage left or stage right,even.

This post is for Stream of Consciousness Saturday hosted by Linda G Hill. The prompt letters are “ex.” Featured image of Snagglepuss via Mark Anderson on Flickr.

Art of the Deal or Racketeer

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Racketeer used in a sentence via Merriam Webster Dictionary:

Isn’t threatening to renege on the NATO Treaty with member countries, threatening to not defend them against thugs unless they pay up, acting like a rackateer not like a President of the United States.

I don’t think this rhetoric is one of an artful deal maker, more one of an old timey racketeer.

This post is my contibution to Stream of Consciousness Saturday hosted by Linda G Hill. Image of Al Capone via Bradley Gordon on Flickr.

Yesterday was the 2nd Anniversary of my blog on WordPress.

Second Emotion

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I agree, I second that proposal. Does anyone second that vote? Linda was saying it is hot where she is and I say I second that here in LA. Today it is 107F and a bit muggy. Hot as hell. Hooray for air conditioning.

I have heard that anger is the second emotion. Meaning first someone feels hurt then anger. But sometimes all you see is the anger. Lots of anger at the Republican Convention. I did not like the violent feelings that some have expressed lately at the convention and in the news. I become concerned that when there is so much violent speech that there is the possibility of violent behavior to go with it. I have been reading a lot of commentary about what was said there and one writer used a quote ” nattering nabobs of negativism.” I thought there was more than nattering going on. More like venomous voices of vitriol.

“To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi, Letters from Burma

This post is part of Stream of Consciousness Saturday hosted by Linda G Hill. The prompt for today is “second.” Featured image is “Freedom of Speech” by Norman Rockwell via wikipedia.

If Then

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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son.

-Rudyard Kipling

When I was briefly researching the word “if” for this post I came across the above poem. I think much of it rings true today. I like what it says about facing loss, believing in yourself, and not giving way to negative emotions. Because there is so much negativity in the world right now. Probably always has been but I am alive and living in this time. The poem says to stick to your values of honesty and benevolence toward others. It is hard to not respond to acts of hatred and violence without wanting to respond with the same. It takes strength and courage to hold to what we feel is right and not get swept up in the hate. If we can do this, then there may be hope for the world.

This post is for Stream of Consciousness Saturday hosted by Linda G Hill. Copy of If via Wikipedia.

Long Weekend

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This is the start of a long holiday weekend. The fourth of July weekend in the USA. Independence Day, July 4. This is the day we yanks commemorate our “Declaration of Independence” from Britain. This usually calls for parades, fireworks, family and friends gathering, barbecues, picnics, and John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” or

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” ( archives.gov)

Happy 4th of July!

Stream of Consciousness Saturday is hosted by Linda G Hill. Beyonce-God Bless America via Jay Kylie on You Tube. Today’s prompt, “long.”

Fly in the Face of Convention

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I like that class of expressions called idioms. “Don’t fly in the face of convention,” means don’t be unconventional, don’t think outside the box, don’t make waves, and don’t rock the boat. I used several more idioms to explain an idiom. I hope you understand what I am trying to say. Well if you fly in the face of convention, you might make waves and rock the boat. Is that mixed metaphors? I like the idea of flying in the face of convention. It is more fun than plodding along in lock step. If we didn’t fly in the face of convention nothing would change. There would be no creativity.

I often speak in idioms in my everyday conversation, like:

They aren’t playing with a full deck.

That cost an arm and a leg.

Don’t beat around the bush.

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.

I feel a bit under the weather.

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She is head and neck above the others.

Which means she’s at the head of the class.

I’m sure you can think of many more idioms. Do you have any favorites?

Stream of Consciousness Saturday is hosted by Linda G Hill. The prompt today is “class.”

Let’s Rumble

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Grumble: me before my morning coffee

Jumble: my hair style when I wake up

Tumble: getting up in the morning

Rumble: Street fight between gangs; the Jets and the Sharks in West Side Story

Mambo: Dance at the gym

Russ Tamblyn played Riff, the leader of the Jets. He is a trained gymnast and it shows in his dance performance in this scene. Stream of Consciousness Saturday is hosted by Linda G Hill. Today’s prompt, the letters mb. Mambo from West Side Story via MrsAngelaBelli on YouTube.