Arise and Shine

WORDKRAFTER MUSINGS: “DOGGONE”     The Associated Press posted a report about a shooting in Tennessee today, November 8th , 2020 . Reading through the news item, I found a few things note-worthy about this event:   1)       Shootings are rampart in the World and even more so in the USA .  2)       This shooting left 8 people wounded  3)       The shootings occurred over an argument What was uncommon was that the argument that led to the shooting started over a Dog! Here is the sequence of events in ‘ word-motion ’: DOG....ARGUMENT....GUN DRAWN...SHOOTING OCCURRED......8 PEOPLE WOUNDED Ruminating on the story and in a lighter mood, I conjectured that these kinds of events are probably the sources of some cuss words in profuse use today! 'Dog Gun' sounds the same as ‘Doggone’ , an English word used as an adjective, adverb and a verb( Merriam-Webster) This Associated Press article in reality tells us that virtually anything can spark unnecessary violence. DOG GUN! In these pandemi

I n Science, Man is classified zoologically as Homo sapiens , which in classical Latin refers to a wise creature. This is not out-of-place since mankind is endowed with unfathomable levels of memory and also a practitioner of sciences; both scholarly and mundane. Man is found to be gifted with an inquisitiveness that can only modestly be described as 'intelligent'. He is enveloped in an 'aura' of disck(kernment' right from the womb. Every second of his life is a neuro-scientific wonder, as he builds layers of experience through a cascade of assembly, dismantles, and explorations. The Homo sapiens is one of several species grouped into the genus to which all modern human beings belong. And through adaptation, innovation, learning, industry, and survival Man has come through an obscure ancestral past with a well-earned legacy of intelligence. I call the legacy 'a bag of tricks'. Not to sound demeaning though, allow me to use a word that brings out the true val