Lessons from Wanderings

If you are not willing to discuss, to argue, to debate, but in doing these things to also LISTEN and be willing to change your own opinions and feelings, to RESEARCH to see if the facts and figures are with or against you, then do not travel.

There are enough closed-minded people in the world...
we need to connect more and reject less,
listen more and speak less
understand more and out-do less.

There are reasons that we have opinions...but that does not always mean that our reasons are the right ones.  Be open to the world, the possibilities.  Be humble in the greatness of the fact that there is a big world out there...and a lot more opinions and experiences than just your own!

Syntax Study on US English

An interesting study on varieties of English in the US...might be something worth following!  I found myself relating to their main graphic immediately.  It's fascinating how we relate the way that we speak (syntax, ie: word order and use) with a certain place or situation.  The US is a big place, though.  I wonder how long an undertaking like this might take?!