Word Prisms

Principles – “a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.”   Principles can relate to the rules of personal and moral behaviour as well as be the basis for scientific theorems. Principal – “the person with the highest authority or most important position in an organization, institution, or group My dad was a principal with principles.   Elementary that is.   He had thumbnail pictures of all the students in the school pasted onto the wall of his office.   I guess he figured that it was easier to discipline a student if he knew his name.   Or hers.   He was a nice guy. Really soft-spoken.   Teachers used to follow him from school to school.   He didn’t like to stay in one too long.   Even though he rarely yelled, Dad was a bit of scary guy ‘cause when he said something, he meant it.   He could also make you feel like shit.   That was his...

Verklemmpt -  A Yiddish word meaning overcome with emotion or choked up.  It’s a new and weird feeling to support the party in power after having lived in Alberta all my life.    And so I found myself paying $100 a ticket to attend a fundraiser in Falher, Alberta.    Falher is just south of Peace River and very close to Donnelly if that helps.    We were late.    I’d had to ask directions from a couple of guys in “The Source” who were only too happy to help.    We’d driven into town on the wrong road.    If we’d come in past the giant bumble bee we would have driven right past the Knights of Columbus Hall.  The interior is a big open space with a stage on one end, kitchen at the other and glaring florescent lighting.    I spotted Rachel's body guards before I spotted her.  I got the same surreal sensation I get spotting any celebrity.    It’s like, “Hey I know you,” and I’m about sa...