The purposes of this Association are to:

  • The purposes of this Association are to:
  • A. Promote and protect the interests, rights, and welfare of the retired educators of the Stevens Point area in conjunction with the Wisconsin Retired Educators’ Association (WREA).
  • B. Monitor and work to improve the benefits for retired educators and other members of the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS).
  • C. Encourage Association members to maintain membership in the Wisconsin Retired Educators’ Association (WREA).
  • D. Develop working relationships with local service organizations whose main emphasis is on aging groups and with organizations sharing goals similar to those of the Association.
  • E. Inform Association members about and advocate for educational and other relevant societal issues.
  • F. Inform members of activities in the area provided for senior citizens.
  • G. Encourage Association members to be active participants in community affairs on an individual basis.

Friday, February 2, 2018

Finding the Right Words, Part 2

Speaking of the power of words, here's a few German words that may help describe your mood regarding the political scene, or just the way you normally would feel mid-winter:

1. Fernweh 
Fernweh, or "distance pain," is like the opposite of homesickness. It’s the feeling of wanting to be elsewhere, anywhere but where you are at this moment.
2. Weltschmerz
Weltschmerz translates literally to “world pain,” and boy oh boy, does that say it all. It’s the state of weariness one feels at the state of the world.
3. Kummerspeck
If your state of weltschmerz has been really getting to you, it’s possible you’ve put on a few extra pounds of kummerspeck, or literally, “grief bacon.”

  And several others..

To read the article, click on this link: https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/7-german-words-perfectly-capture-feeling-living-trumps-america#.WnGoof9GAI8.email />

It's been theorized that the Navajo language is the one most useful in understanding quantum physics and the Grand Unified Theory; something about having so many tenses, especially future tenses.

It's difficult, if not impossible, to feel or understand an idea or emotion if there's no word for it.  In The Giver, Jonas has no word for the color red, and, consequentially, can't see the color red.

In 1984,  Newspeak inverts the English language and the Ministry of Truth "rectifies" history.  Today, we have the US Patriot Act, Homeland Security Act, Voter "Protection" laws, and so on.   We're in the middle of our own Newspeak transition from standard English, and both the language and the truth will suffer from it.

In the next life, I want to be a linguistic archeologist. Yes, that's a real thing.

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