by Marty Coleman | Mar 30, 2011 | Metaphor - 2011, Robert Frost |
It’s the last day of Metaphor Week!
I have been living in Oklahoma almost 17 years now and I have seen a LOT of video footage of tornadoes. I have even seen in person any number of storms that were threatening to become one. Luckily I haven’t seen an actual tornado. The most amazing thing about them is how tall and thin they are. They have virtually no substance to them at all and they usually don’t last very long.
Happiness is much the same way. Much like a tornado, happiness can effect much beyond it’s immediate borders even if it is only in existence for a few moments. What a person is rubs off on others. If you are happy AND express it, then others see it, feel it, and might be pulled in by it to move towards ‘happy’ as well.
Be a happiness tornado for a moment or two today. See who you can pull in.
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by Marty Coleman | Mar 30, 2011 | Death - 2001-2011, Metaphor - 2011, Rose MaCaulay |
It’s day 3 of Metaphor week. I am enjoying my new book, ‘I Never Metaphor I Didn’t Like – a comprehensive compilation of history’s greatest analogies, metaphors, and similes’, but I am realizing as I go that so many quotes I have read and used over the years have been in one of those three categories already!
Sometimes I feel like that myself. I am a very social person and I actually keep up with many people from my past, people who are life-long friends, but like many men, I don’t have a ton of close guy friends.
I first realized this when I got divorced in 2000. One of the elements that led up to the divorce caused there to be a split between friend and I. Until that happened I thought of him as a guy I saw once in a while. We socialized, had some creative and extended family elements in common, but that was about it. But after it happened I realized that he was one of my closest guy friends. It actually seemed sort of pathetic to me at the time. This guy I spend barely any time with turns to be one of my closest friends. It made the divorce all the harder.
That is one reason I like organized recreation, such as the running group I am in. I have been injured lately (achilles tendon) and so have not been running. I have really missed it. In part because of the exercise (I have gained weight for sure) but also because of the friendships. I miss hearing what is going on in people’s lives. I miss telling stories of my life. I miss encouraging my friends.
Yesterday I mentioned something I used to say to my daughters as they went to school in the morning. I would say ‘Make good friends, keep good friends’. How do you do those two things?
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Quote by Rose MaCaulay, 1881-1958, British writer
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by Marty Coleman | Mar 30, 2011 | Metaphor - 2011, Robert Louis Stevenson |
It’s day #2 of Metaphor Week!
This goes along with something I said to my daughters many mornings as they left for school, “Make good friends, keep good friends”.
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by Marty Coleman | Mar 30, 2011 | F. Scott Fitzgerald, Metaphor - 2011 |
It’s Metaphor Week at the NDD! First, a definition. A metaphor is a direct claim that
A is X. A simile is similar, but it says A is like X, not A is X.
Want to stay young at heart? Have not only the courage of your convictions, but the courage to explore them thoroughly.
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Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American author and screenwriter. Ironically he died at the exact age of the older person in his quote.
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