in turn, we will have understood because we have likened it to something else we had previously understood, and so on. It’s metaphors all the way down.
The description of the image says it’s from a wood block. Until lithography came along in the mid 1880’s, most illustrations in newspapers and magazines were engraved on wood blocks made to fit the column width of the publication, so I think we can be confident in saying the image date...
Sage, I need to start by saying, if you ever end up reading these… the lag in posts has nothing to do with how much I love you but everything to do with life being full and busy. I am spending more time caring for you and little Cedar (and now baby Shiloh) than in front of ...
Okay, I didn’t really make it up – I sort of stole it from the old “over the shoulder boulder holder” joke (that’s a bra for those of you who were sheltered as a child) but you have to admit, it gives a clear and concise picture in your head and is much easier to under...
Another example is the hammer and the anvil, now always used with the implication that the anvil gets the worst of it. In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about: a writer who stopped to think what he was saying would avoid perverting the ...
Is important for you what media are saying about how women should be the ideal woman? Do you agree with what society says about what of being a woman? Do you feel that you are not appreciated at work, that you won't have the opportunity to ascend by being a woman? You family is ...
“cheese”. Try it. It does the same thing to your mouth. And, of course, foreigners in China are always being asked to have their pictures taken. Thus, in our first summer in China, I had been saying “qiezi” for quite a long while before I learned that it meant something besides...
Anyway this is all my way of saying that I tried putting bed risers under the couch for good reasons that I promise you don’t need to worry about and now I think the couch is too tall. It’s a little refreshing, seeing the living room from a different angle, one that’s a littl...
I was safe. It was the kind of place where I could walk around town by myself as a 5 or 6 year old. If I got lost, I’d ask the first random person I came across which way to go. Without any words, whoever it was could just point, “your grandmother’s that direction”. ...
the powers that be as this unfolds. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has got to be saying, “They did what?!!” to anyone on her staff brave enough to go near her while all over the country a feeling of dread is beginning to replace the cautious optimism we had during the past three ...