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  Your Favorite Plays on Words

  by compound complex in

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  greetings, fellow word lovers:.

  please add your favorite, clever smithing of words.. ****************************.

  time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana..

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  Thanks, everyone! Very clever!

  You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.
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  Meeting Days Felt Different?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i dont know if it was the same for you, but for me when i was a jw meeting days seemed to have a black cloud hanging over them.

  on thursdays i knew i would be going to the meeting that evening.

  that i would be getting into my meeting clothes at 6:30pm, leaving the house at 6:55pm and be sat in the kingdom hall from 7:15pm-9pm, then milling around for about half an hour before finally getting home for 10pm.

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  When in a foreign language congregation in Manhattan, we shared with three other congos. We got the last of the pickings: Saturday night for school, etc. and Sunday afternoon for talk and WT. We got home to Bethel late Saturday night and had to get back on the train early Sunday morning to go out in service all day and then late-p.m. meeting.

  Work all week at headquarters and out almost every night on Bible studies, plus Book Study. Many of us young, healthy brothers cracked.
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  Your Favorite Plays on Words

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  greetings, fellow word lovers:.

  please add your favorite, clever smithing of words.. ****************************.

  time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana..

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  compound complex

  Greetings, Fellow Word Lovers:

  Please add your favorite, clever smithing of words.

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  Time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana.
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  New JWism in April broadcast?

  by AuntBee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anyone know what it means to be "securely wrapped up in the bag of life"?

  is this a new special wt terminology?

  they said it or a slight variant of it, several times in the broadcast, perhaps 3?

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  compound complex

  Tangential, but everyone else is doing it:

  cu-de-sac:

  mid-18th century (originally in anatomy): French, literally ‘bottom of a sack.’
  
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  Thirty-Five Years Later

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the market today, i walked down an aisle and glanced over at a middle-aged man and the woman beside him pushing a shopping cart.

  i couldn't place the man but recognized the somewhat younger woman, a former student.

  when the fellow started talking, i realized it was her brother, also a one-time student.

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  compound complex

  You're welcome, Dear Tara!

  
  
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  Thirty-Five Years Later

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the market today, i walked down an aisle and glanced over at a middle-aged man and the woman beside him pushing a shopping cart.

  i couldn't place the man but recognized the somewhat younger woman, a former student.

  when the fellow started talking, i realized it was her brother, also a one-time student.

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  Thank you, Tara, for reliving a happy memory for me. I'd all but forgotten about this piece and what it meant to me, a student, and her now deceased father.

  The baby of one family watched her two older sisters, both my students, play the piano. They taught her bits and pieces. While the older girls were delightful, their talents were modest. When baby sister got a little older and her sisters were no longer my students, "Mary" started at the piano and became one of my most gifted students.

  Her rendition of "Ashokan Farewell" had to be heard to be believed.
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  Thirty-Five Years Later

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the market today, i walked down an aisle and glanced over at a middle-aged man and the woman beside him pushing a shopping cart.

  i couldn't place the man but recognized the somewhat younger woman, a former student.

  when the fellow started talking, i realized it was her brother, also a one-time student.

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  Thank you, Wasanelder Once and GrreatTeacher, for your replies. I appreciate the thought behind them.

  One former student told me recently that her parents were not particularly interested in her education but I was. I was just doing my job (which I happen to love), and, somehow, she got the good vibes and went on to a successful life and career. I don't recall anything in particular that I said or did, but apparently she did.

  Thanks, too, Wasa, for the link. I love the work of Franck, especially The Accursed Huntsman and Symphony in D Minor.
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  Thirty-Five Years Later

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the market today, i walked down an aisle and glanced over at a middle-aged man and the woman beside him pushing a shopping cart.

  i couldn't place the man but recognized the somewhat younger woman, a former student.

  when the fellow started talking, i realized it was her brother, also a one-time student.

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  compound complex

  Greetings:

  In the market today, I walked down an aisle and glanced over at a middle-aged man and the woman beside him pushing a shopping cart. I couldn't place the man but recognized the somewhat younger woman, a former student. When the fellow started talking, I realized it was her brother, also a one-time student. They both began taking lessons as preteens and stayed with it a couple years.

  For the most part, a teacher never really knows what a student is thinking; does he hate his lessons? Some have told me as much. So, then, 35 years later Mark opens up and says he drove his family crazy practicing his broken chords, up and down the keyboard, up and down . . . He thanked me for teaching him how to read music and told me how much music has impacted his entire life. He is currently passing on that love to his children. Little sister, too, expressed her feelings for the brief time we had together during her childhood. Kids grow up and often do become great adults.

  Mark loves Vivaldi and listens to the maestro daily. He mentioned La Folia as a favorite. Please click on and experience vicariously the happiness I am feeling now.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4qePY2Wdss
  

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  Apostrophe

  by compound complex in

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  2. entertainment

  the lyrics to the song, "twinkle, twinkle, little star," are an example of apostrophe (not an apostrophe).

  learn something new every day!.

  twinkle, twinkle, little star, how i wonder what you are.

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  compound complex

  Will fill you in later, Dear! I send out a synopsis of points covered to members unable to attend.
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  Apostrophe

  by compound complex in

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  2. entertainment

  the lyrics to the song, "twinkle, twinkle, little star," are an example of apostrophe (not an apostrophe).

  learn something new every day!.

  twinkle, twinkle, little star, how i wonder what you are.

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  compound complex

  Thanks, Tara!

  Triple posts for emphasis.

  This will be covered in tomorrow's Senior Citizens Creative Writing class. I send out a monthly notice of what we're to study; tomorrow it will be Parataxis, Apostrophe, and Janus words. Then, we do a gentle critique of members' writing.

  They love it!