“Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes, age just shows up all by itself.”
Tom Wilson
Wisdom
Business is Art
“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”
Genius
Words Seldom Seen: Coiffure
Coiffure
Noun: A person’s hairstyle, particularly an elaborate hairstyle.
Example: “We enjoyed seeing the coiffure of the college basketball players in the NCAA Tournament.”
Words Seldom Seen: Pique
Pique
Verb: 1. Arousing Interest or curiosity. or 2. Feel irritation or resentment.
Examples: 1. “You have piqued my interest in your topic.”
2. I’m feeling piqued by his superior attitude.”
Words Seldom Seen: Egregious
Egregious
Adjective: Outstandingly bad or shocking.
Example: “The American’s egregious behavior did not endear them to the locals.”
Interestingly egregious archaically used to mean outstandingly good. It is an example of a word on the move.
Memory
Memory is much, much more unreliable than we all like to think. Pretty much every time someone tells an elaborate story about something that happened to them a long time ago, assume it’s going to be largely untrue.
Paul Bloom, Psychologist
Words Seldom Seen: Nadir
Nadir
Noun: The low point in the fortunes of a person or organization. It also has an astronomical meaning that we will ignore.
Example: “The nadir was reached when she lost her job and crashed her car on the same day.”
Words Seldom Seen: Comity
Comity
Noun: courteous and considerate behavior toward others. Often applied to relationships among nations and states.
Example: “Comity applied to driving laws but not to gun laws.”
Stay Humble My Friend
“Wherever you may go, no matter how high and mighty you become, bring where you came from with you.”
Wild Flowers in the Phoenix Mountain Preserve. In Arizona March showers bring March flowers.