Rev Dr Sparky on Real/igion

Tag: Humor

  • Why You Don’t Take A “No” From Someone Who Can’t Give A “Yes”

    Typical naysayer. Photo by Ryan Franco on Unsplash And it’s totally okay I wasted a little time today because I forgot the simplest negotiating principle ever: don’t take a “no” from someone in an organization who’s not empowered to say “yes.” It all worked out, but I felt foolish — I should know better than to ask someone to…

  • All Keyed Up

    Photo by Bradford Nicolas on Unsplash Another word mystery A prominent individual said something critically important on television the other day, but I forget what it was. I just remember they said it was “key,” without any “the” or “a” or anything. I hear this construction all the time, and it would be absolutely forgettable if it…

  • Surviving Message Lockdown

    Photo by Niels Smeets on Unsplash You’re not alone. You’re just not listening. I recently spent some time trying to cheer up a friend. If you already know I failed, you are smarter than I was in that moment. But please don’t judge too harshly, because even though I really do know better, sometimes I still…

  • Through the Portal

    Photo by Joshua Rondeau on Unsplash reluctant poetry It’s just another magic place to go, like pocket parks or winter forest clearings,where you can stop deciding who to be, or why;and ease your iron shoulders of their weight: So I am not afraid to get away from hereinto the vasty deep that beckons there, alight with wisdom,…

  • Please stop interrup —

    Photo by David Clode on Unsplash The fierce urgency of [unintelligible] My mother often interrupted me while I was talking to tell me not to interrupt others while they were talking. Once I boldly responded that she had, in fact, interrupted me to tell me that. But only once, because my mother was not to be…

  • Now See Hear

    Photo by kyle smith on Unsplash Newsreaders are losing their senses If the content of the news weren’t crazy enough to keep me away from the nightly media scatshow, the failing language skills of the commentators is. They’ve forgotten the meanings of simple verbs like “listen” and “look.” “Take a listen” This is wrong. We can “take a…

  • Madcap Delinquent Prophet on a Scooter

    Photo by Marc Sendra Martorell on Unsplash On taking back your power My new electric scooter arrived last week, and I am already hopelessly in love with it. It’s the stand-up kind — I just step on with one foot, kick off with the other foot, and toggle a power switch that glides me forward. Wind in my hair……