As a non-national language Esperanto has a great future as the future global language. Without doubt. It also avoids linguistic discrimination against minority languages because it places all lanugages on an equal footing. Eight British MP's have nominated this "new" global language for the Nobel Peace Prize. You might like to check http://www.esperanto.net
(sign from a NOLA bar) Probably the world does not need another middle-aged, white, cisgender woman writing about race. But the world DOES need my daughter's take on it, and she doesn't blog, so here I am. When we first knew we were having a girl, we knew she would have blue eyes, because mine are blue-grey and Patrick's are blue-green. The genetics don't vary much on that one. Other than that, we thought, with dominant genes and some luck, that she might look like her Aunt Patrice. Which she actually does. Except for the tiny little issue that somehow my Nordic genes totally went dominant rogue and she turned out to be blonde and very light skinned. (age 1.5 in the Scow family christening dress) So since she's been old enough to communicate, she's had people confused about her racial identity. She's been told she checked the wrong box on forms, she's had teachers deny her ancestry, she's had government officials question her Global Entry, she's
I did not want to be laying in bed, wearing a fleece onesie and still shivering, while my husband and daughter headed out to the several wonderful NYE parties we have planned. I have a beautiful new dress that I got in Duluth for tonight, and was looking forward to the collection of friends we would be seeing. Our friend Whitney in particular is throwing the last party at her B and B, and it's breaking my heart not to go. But I feel logey and coughy, and more to the point, I have a low fever, and I don't want to mess around with possibly getting anyone sick. I'm still holding out hope that I'll miraculously feel better and the fever was a mistaken reading, but I doubt that. And I feel lucky to have 3 sets of people who want me in their lives tonight and who I don't want to get sick. As our yoga teacher Viv says, it's not like a page turns and everything is magic. You get some things that are good, and some that are not, and life is living in the middle. -- In 20
This desk ("the responsibility desk," a term I nabbed from a long-ago boyfriend) does not look like much of a big deal. But it represents several days of cleaning things out. Emptying drawers, looking through (and then discarding) old cards, tossing old receipts, etc. Cataloging gift cards: checking balances, noting the amounts, filing alphabetically. We have enough to eat and shop on gift cards (as long as we don't spend over $30, which seems to be the average balance, and go places that we don't normally go) for the next year. Throwing away unused gift cards where places had closed (sob, Heyday and Chinook Book). Recycling several bags of paper. Doing the same with coupons and punch cards and points cards. I sent Patrick off to lunch with a punch card for the Naughty Greek today, and am bringing dessert to an event with a combination of Nothing Bundt Cakes lunch cards, coupons, and a gift card. I transferred 20,000 miles from my old Skymiles number to my new one. C
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Without doubt.
It also avoids linguistic discrimination against minority languages because it places all lanugages on an equal footing.
Eight British MP's have nominated this "new" global language for the Nobel Peace Prize.
You might like to check http://www.esperanto.net