August 2008
8 posts
“You can’t control the wind, but you can adjust your sails.”
– old Yiddish proverb
Getting Away With It
Having read my last posting, Jeannie sent me a mail: “Enjoyed that, oh the fun of getting away with it.”
She’s right, ov kosst, “getting away with it” is fun, always was, always will be– and, depending on what you’re actually “getting away with” you can, at the same time, also be sticking it to the man, and that, folks, can never be bad. At the...
“Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
“The mass of men lead lives
of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the...”
– Henry David Thoreau
Of "Oise" and "Ongue"
A few postings ago I did a wee bit about the famous Eppelein von Gailingen, or, as he is also known, Eckelein Geyling or Ekkelin Gayling. He was a German Raubritter, or robber baron (as far as I’m concerned all barons, earls and others of that abhorrent aristocratic ilk, are bleeding rogues and robbers: but that’s another story) from Franken.
Shirley and I were told of...
