“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.”
Big Picture
Old broadcasters never die…
When I was about 10 years old someone teased my parents and said, “That kid was vaccinated with a Victrola needle”, meaning I talked a lot. Given my Irish heritage, I was told it was something to be proud of. “You have a gift for the gab”.
Just sayin’.
We’re drowning in a river of words: blogs, emails, text messages, tweets, comments, speeches, oratory, rhetoric, verbal engineering, commentary, and spin, spin, spin. Sure, we contribute our fair share right here on Scanning the Dial, but our contribution to the torrent hopefully sets just the right tone, is just clever enough and feels just right. *wink*
There are good words, hate words, and comic words. When you think of good communicators, who comes to mind? President Obama? Jesse Jackson? Jon Stewart? What kind of words tend to capture your imagination? Depends on our mood and needs, doesn’t it.
Brooklyn Rider, and Hope Springs Atonal
When my grandfather was in his 80s, he would go every two weeks to get a vitamin B-12 shot. For about two days he would be energized and full of the dickens. Well, a great concert or a fascinating piece of music can do the same thing for you.