Trivia and Inconsequentials

On my desk is much information sent to me...
and which I've collected...yet I do not wish to discard!

So, bear with me (and perhaps you will enjoy)
the following writings to have some significance.

Agreeing with Alexandria Petri, she states: As facts, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet, this disregard for facts (qua facts) is intellectually appealing.

Facts are the raw material of thought and amid tjhe knowledge of significant facts ~
makes sophistocated thought possible!

Birthday Card Request for Senior Widower Drew Responses from Around the World!

A Nova Scotia widower who received thousands of birthday cards last year after his daughter asked

to mail him their best wishes for his 92^nd birthday, has died, his daughter said on Tuesday.

He died Monday evening in Sydney with his family by his side. His daughter, Miriam further said,

He decided he would peacefully move on...and see Mom.

“Maybe it's true that life begins at 50, but everything else
starts to wear out...fall out...or spread out. (Phyllis Diller)

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step,
he's too old to go anywhere. (Billy Crystal)

Inuit Man Turns Cultural Values into Board Game: Thomassie Managiok loves his land and the culture it created so much, he wants to share it with everybody. Since he can't bring the world to his tiny Arctic hamlet on Quebec's northernmost tip, he invented a way to bring Inuit life in Ivujivik to the world. When I was out on the land, I want to share what I love. Out on the snowmobile one day, I thought, OK, I have to make a game out of this. I'll make a game that promotes balance...living healthily with nature...and give people a sense of exploration as they play.

The result is a board game called 'Nunami.'

The object is not to control territory or dominate your opponent, but to achieve a productive coexistence. (It came from my love of things out of my culture) said Mangiok, a school administrator.

“I wanted to encourage people to live in balance with others:

people...animals...plants...whatever!”

Two to four players take roles as either 'human' or ' nature.' The players put pieces within

hexagons on the game board ~ and try to collect points by filling the hexagons.

He has almost 400 people lined up to purchase his game.

Colours of the Rainbow: Red, Orange,Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. And a memory-jogger to recall its colours is:Richard Of York...Gave Battle In Vain

Did You Know? Highs and Lows:

Both the highest and the lowest points in the Southern Hemisphere are in Argentina. The highest is Mont Aconcagua, a mountain in Mendoza Province, while the lowest is Laguna del Carbon, a lake in Santa Cruz Province.

Stay Clear: Staying out of the path of a colony of driver ants is a good idea. These aggressive insects,

found in central and east Africa, attack snakes, birds, small mammals, and even humans, in huge groups of up to 22 million ants.

Panama: Home to about 4 million people, Panama is only 74,340 square kilometres. Panama City, capital of the isthmus nation, is located on the Pacific Ocean end of the Panama Canal.

Full of Fronds: The town of Pierson, Florida (US) proclaims itself as the Fern Capital of the World.

In Pierson, generations of farmers have grown ferns, which are exported around the world.

Round Castle: Castles in England seem to go together but one stands out as unusual. Restormel Castle in Cornwll, is completely round. Its ruins which date to the 11th century, show that the kitchen's, great hall and guest rooms were designed to abut the circular outer walls. Once, a luxurious residence for the Earl of Cornwall, the castle may have been the first one built by the Norman conquerors.

Long Career: ( A hairstylist in Memphis, Tennessee) Finally retired last fall at age 100, Cathy Terrell got her beautician's licence in 1945 and opened her own shop in the late 1950's'. When it burned down in 1983, she began to rent space at another beauty shop. In all, she has been cutting and styling hair for 73 years. Terrell still drives and is very active.. She has no intention of slowing down!

I Have Noticed

Everything is farther away than it used to be!

It is even twice as far to the corner ~ and they have added a hill.
I have given up running for the bus ~ it leaves earlier than it used to.

It seems to me they are making the stairs steeper than in the old days..
And, have you noticed the smaller print they use in the newspaper?

There is no sense in asking anyone to read aloud anymore,
because everyone speaks in such a low voice, I can hardly hear them!

The material in dresses is so skimpy now, especially around the hips and waist
that it is almost impossible to reach one's shoe-laces.
And the sizes don't run the way they used to ~

the sizes 12's and 14's are so much smaller.

Even people are changing:

they are so much younger than they used to be,

when I was their age.

On the other hand, people my own age, are so much older than I am.
I ran into an old classmate the other day,

and she has aged so much that she didn't recognize me.

I got to thinking about the poor dear while I was combing my hair this morning

and in so doing ~ I glanced at my own reflection.
Really Now !!!

They don't even make good mirrors like they used to!

Author: Merle Baird-Kerr...written December 30, 2019

Comments most welcome: mbairdkerr@cogeco.ca

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