Thanks to "The Kids Are Alright," Ronniecat's yesterday post, for my year-ending post for 2007. Here's a link to a web address in one of the comments on her post, too.
It's nice to read about kids (in one case, a bunch of 12-year-olds) who--on their own--stand up against stereotypes and bullies.
And it's equally fine to read about another kid, age 17, who raised enough money to open a school for poor kids in a Cambodian village.
Kinda awe-inspiring, isn't it? And a kick in the pants for the rest of us for those times when we think, "I'm just one person...what I say or do doesn't matter in this day and age."
(And before you say anything, Ex-Shammie, "alright" must be a Canadian idiom! Ex-Shammie insists that "XtremeEnglish" is all wrong. Can't help it, Ex-Shammie....the rights to "Extreme English" were taken already.)
Those are some wonderful children! It proves that they're not all knuckleheads.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year when it comes!
Well what do you know, X.E.? I guess alright is a Canadian idiom by way of Britain, if this Wikipedia article is correct. I've spelled it that way all my life - using "all right" in formal usage and "alright" as an altogether different phrase, really - and didn't realize it was another Briticism that we haven't dropped.
ReplyDeleteronnie
Fascinating, indeed. Didn't the Beatles have a song, "It's gonna be alright"?? I remember one of our grade school teachers writing ALL on one blackboard and RIGHT on the opposite one and drumming up great fear of the consequences if we combined them...especially with one L missing!
ReplyDeleteAnd SHE was straight off the boat from Ireland.