“I think those are very wrong who say that schoolboys should be encouraged
to read the newspapers.
Nearly all that a boy reads there in his teens will be known
before he is twenty to have been false in emphasis and interpretation,
if not in fact as well, and most of it will have lost all importance.
Most of what he remembers he will therefore have to unlearn;
and he will probably have acquired an incurable taste for vulgarity and sensationalism
and the fatal habit of fluttering from paragraph to paragraph to learn
how an actress has been divorced in California, a train derailed in France,
and quadruplets born in New Zealand.”
C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
(C.S.Lewis busy at his desk / The New York C.S.Lewis Society)
Had I not known that Mr. Lewis had penned these observational words in 1955,
I would have thought they were but a…
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Sacred Touches 
Thank you Natalie—and thank you for such a gracious compliment…in order to have been an English teacher, I would have needed to have a better sense of spelling as well as grammar usage—I don’t know a participle, dangling or not, from the proper use of commas…as in commas are too much my friend 🙂
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Thanks for an early morning chuckle my friend. You do well when you write in your blog. Before I started teaching I worked at an insurance company and once when I was promoted to supervise a different department than the one I was I told him that I didn’t know enough about it to do a good job. He told me too just dazzle them with footwork until i learned. And that has worked many a time since. I wasn’t the best grammarian either but I worked with teachers who were so I’d go to them for help and I learned. Love and hugs, N 😊❤️❌⭕️
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I had many a principal who told me they thought I was an English teacher and a far cry from and art teacher…but I did learn truly to dazzle until I could master something—a “never let them see you sweat” sort of thing… 🙂
so for now I embrace my typos as auto correct does as much harm as my own ignorance 🙂
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I knew you and I were good “tap” dancers! You really have to be to teach anything‼️ And hey with your ability to get a message across you indeed dazzle❣️😘
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Merci 🙂
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De rien‼️❌⭕️
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He is smiling, he likes what he is doing ! So good ! Hello, dear Natalie – love to you -Bises … Huges 🙂 3< – france
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Bonsoir chere France❣️love et hugs et bises😘😘😘
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