[Magdalen] Prayer Request for my old friend

[Grace Cangialosi]

I'll never forget the time that a much younger seminary classmate referred
to me as "middle-aged."  It was such a shock, because it was the first time
I'd ever heard that applied to me!  I had always said that middle age was
15 years older than I was at the time, however old I was at any given
time!  Well,  I can't get away with that any more!  Now I guess I could say
that of "old."  Old is always ten years older than I am. Well, maybe not...

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 8:55 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> All in a manner of speaking, bluntly and without delicacy, Roger.  All in
> a manner of speaking. :-D  This form is British and dates to at least 1919
> when it appeared in Somerset Maugham's _The Moon & Sixpence_.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
>
>
> On 1/13/2017 4:20 PM, Roger Stokes wrote:
>
>> On 13/01/2017 15:10, Marion Thompson wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I much prefer elderly to old or senior, thank you.  In any case,
>>> my reaction has much to do with my 78-yr-old self (?!)  not keeling over
>>> just yet.  In any case, isn't it just calling a spade a bloody shovel?  It
>>> is what it is, hardly perjorative.
>>>
>>
>> A spade is not a shovel, of whatever type. They are different tools used
>> for different purposes, hence their different design. A spade is for
>> digging while a shovel is for moving coal or whatever from A to B - hence
>> the upturned edges which would be a hindrane in digging over a patch of
>> soil. ;-)
>>
>> Roger
>> .
>>
>>
>


-- 
Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

*"Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great
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