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Yes, moi on the Dun-Dun at my 5?th birthday party
Celebrate my upcoming 58th with me
by giving a smile to someone around you. |
Be forewarned, this word count does not go toward my personal challenge to write 50,000 words on homelessness for NaNoWriMo 2012. The words in this post, however, are extremely important, none-the-less to thoughts on homelessness and how you perceive yourself and others. No matter what part of the road of homelessness you happen to be on, or off.
The words you are going to read
have not been written by me.
Familiar with
S. I. Hayakawa? or read another of his bio's
here.
His book. "
Language in Thought and Action" (Hayakawa, S. I., and Alan R. Hayakawa.
Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition. 5th ed. Harvest Original, 1991.) is where the excerpted words come from.
It's difficult to be a part of social media and not know, know of, or be acquainted with MAD MEN (The term "Madison Avenue" is often used
metonymically
for advertising, and Madison Avenue became identified with the American
advertising industry after the explosive growth in this area in the
1920s. -- cited from “Madison Avenue.”
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, November 5, 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Madison_Avenue&oldid=515450380.)
I'd like you to consider "The Story of A-Town and B-Ville: A Semantic Parable" from the panorama of any social injustice you support, crusade against, advocate for those experiencing it. For me, today, the vista I'm viewing it from is homelessness. I find it particularly poignant, because as a person experiencing homelessness during the month of January 2011, I spent my nights in the local National Guard Armory on a cot with 199 other people sleeping out of the elements, as part of the then available "Winter Shelter."