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Thursday Aug. 6, 2015 

 

Are you e-fluent?

Lovely note arrived – using effluence.

Hmm … effluent means sewage …

Writer likely meant influence.

Could also have meant affluence, but context pointed to influence.

Effluence and influence actually aren’t foreign concepts.

Mind wandered to e-fluency, e-influences, e-mail – all things e and i – i-phone, i-pad, i-pod – got me thinking prefix.

Another lovely word, we know its meaning.

But, I’m on this tangent: think – ‘fix in advance’, pre-fix, pre-repair(prepare).

Go ahead, effluence someone today.

Or, just give them a chuckle because too often too many people have nothing to chuckle about. On those days, even a little one you share might go a long way toward brightening someone’s very gloomy day …

We can’t always fix things.

But we can always be effluent, or pre-fixing something.

Imagine a driver, caught under the effluence …


Mark Kolke

written / published from Calgary, AB

morning walk:  10C/50F, Gusta and I walked and got plenty wet to the wonderful sound - overnight rain morphing to morning drizzle, birds not up yet – and nocturnal rabbits on nearly every corner, Gusta oblivious to them all as her nose was more focused on where they’d been than where they are …

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What a beautiful post today. And, interestingly, I had started writing on this very subject last week and haven't yet finished my post. Now, you've inspired me to keep going, LG, Calgary, AB


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