What Brings You Peace?

Don't tell anyone. I was always hot on grammar, when I was teaching.

 

Oh, I didn't know you were a teacher. (oops).

It might interest you to know that (I read), Tom Bradby, when taking over as anchor on ITV news; he took on the editorial role as well because he believed the grammar used needed to be improved.
I think it is improved and others, also, are now avoiding the split infinitive and improving sentence structure, generally, too.
My late Mum was a teacher of English. (She wasn't an English teacher because she was Irish).

 

I've just remembered a joke about the difficult in learning English.
It's often described as the most difficult language to learn but the easiest to be understood in.
And then I heard that a guy who had just landed at Heathrow saw a news banner with the words 'exhibition pronounced success', so he took the next plane home! lol

 

no was trying to zoom in on wonderful couple on hammock!

 

Jane's father taught English in the pub. The rule was, every noun must be preceded by an adjective, every adjective must start with the letter "F", then if you cannot think of any more nouns, just use the adjectives on their own.
Going to school just after WW2, many of our teachers were tradesmen brought out of retirement. During my joinery lesson, I got a few of the adjectives between "You" and "Idiot", when I cut my secret dovetails inside out. I still remember the time when one of the guys asked for a tube of plastic wood to fill all the gaps between his dovetails. The poor teacher lost it, told him to take his work down to the boiler house, then mould the entire cabinet out of plastic wood. He was an amazing character and an even more amazing craftsman. Not like todays teachers, who go straight from college to teaching, without having spent a single day in industry.

When I left college, it was before the nanny state, so I went on to teach physics and engineering for a few years, before medical college.
I found medical college very boring, because of the need for single speciality. So rather than poke hearts around the my next 55 years, I made my hobby my profession and went on to run 14 royal film performances, along with post production work on films for Fred Zinnemann, Richard Attenborough and numerous other directors.
The soundtrack synchronisation on this concerto, (Ken Russell, The Music Lovers) was one of my favourite jobs. The part from 7:35 on the video took hours.
Horses cannot be taught music, even by me.

 

I despise spellcheck & autocorrect

 

Still gardens mostly..............





Mzzls

ps.

 

My dogs

 

When people ask my advice, I tell them to never watch Beavis and Butthead. Pay attention to the better cartoons and, when in trouble, when in doubt, run in circles scream and shout!

Everyone I've talk to has claimed its actually good advice, they seldom take, which is why I seldom offer anyone advice. There's simply no accounting for taste, but I urge them all to Pay Attention To The Cartoon! Because, of course, there never was any intelligent life around here!

So, as often as possible, I remind myself to "Get Over It Already!" And, I feel much better, knowing I can change the damn channel.

 

The laughter of babies / children. It's later that they realize what senselessness humans have wrought upon this world.

 

Just being me, out early morning. Just me and the birds, rabbits, occasionally deer etc.
I converse them with them all, I smile a lot and as I said just be me.

 

Stay You!!;-)

 

spending a day on the golf course with my son

 

Music, meditation, friends.

 

The bible

 

Good food and good sex!!! Those strike me as primary needs in a way.

Otherwise it’s the liberty to exist as I’d like to. If I want to get naked, big deal. You can see my body, it’s not sexual. If I want to drive an econobox or a bigass SUV, that’s my choice. Peace comes from having the ability to align your world to what your needs and wants are. Peace is personally degraded when folks deign to impose things on you; can’t get gay married? Folks won’t have peace. Can’t smoke a bowl? Can’t buy guns? Can’t have an abortion? Those lines in the sand get folks mad. Maximum liberty is my peaceful spot, even if I don’t personally avail myself of those options. Having the options is where it’s at for me.

 

Tonight it was getting out of the shower to snuggle up in bed, and getting a lung-full of cold, clear air, and that beautiful rain smell.

 

Love it!! ;-)

 

Sitar music.my consciousness in the
Here and Now.

 

Outside fresh air