SENTIMENT
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Let’s go fly a kite and send it soaring…
LIMA-ECHO-TANGO-SIERRA FOXTROT-LIMA-YANKEE In 1903 the Wright brothers successfully went airborne for 12 precious seconds at Kitty Hawk in the airplane that they built. Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in 1752 in an attempt to bring “a charge from the heavens” and subsequently discovered electricity. https://www.fi.edu/en/science-and-education/benjamin-franklin/kite-key-experiment For thousands of years mankind has been fascinated with flying.…
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Traditions-Are they important if you’ve never had them?
tradition vs. memories When you talk about tradition and memories you can almost use them interchangeably. According to the Oxford dictionary, Tradition is defined as https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en/ And Britannica defines memories as https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/memory So, in my opinion this would mean that you teach with Tradition and retain what you have learned through Memory. A simple concept.…
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CAVEAT EMPTOR (let the buyer AND the seller beware)
caveat emptor or caveat venditor? You can trace the origins of Caveat Emptor back to Roman times.. “Let the buyer beware” is the English translation of this latin phrase and although it is primarily used as a legal real estate term these days it still has a meaning that reads loud and clear in most…
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A salute to the Red, White and Blue- But mostly, to all of you!
Happy Veterans Day! This post is to salute, celebrate and honor the veterans that are serving now and previously as well as the ones to come. Join me now as we salute the Red, White and Blue, all that it stands for and the men and women who make and have made it possible for…
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Do you Spring forward or Fall back?
losing time Here we go again. Another Daylight savings event. I don’t know about you but I have enough problems sleeping without having to deal with a change in time. I guess technically since we fall back we gain an hour. If you are like most it doesn’t matter if you are working outside the…