One of my all time favorite commercials is the little boy planting one of his building blocks, watering it and watching a tree grow.
This then stirs up questions inside.
If one wishes to plant a field of the courteous variety of trumpeting voice streams, where does the seed come from?
Just a word of caution, these seeds, when found, must carefully be planted near the surface. If we sling too much dirt, or shove them under other soiled verbiage, I’m afraid our hopes for the future will simply decompose and our seeds will grow into meaningless voice stream projections and dry up. We need to unleash controlled ambition, nurturing these seeds so they continue to grow until they blossom into the harvest of courteous voice streams we anticipated.

(Didn’t win a prize.)
The fence that thinks it is the most important fence between fences, isn’t a fence at all!
To get a first glance between fences the eye lashes out, settling on top of a tricky welcome. Reflected in the pupils is a decorative invitation including irises nestled in greener grasses, along with a display of fences guarded between fences. Some fences stretch into unclaimed boundaries beyond the horizon, tickling infinity. Fences with various expressions of materials and rails of different language levels pronouncing decisively established boundaries. In our quest to funnel through facts stored between fences, we will surely be identifying areas with friendly, unfriendly and not so useful fences, all of them playfully chasing each other around corners in their elected arena.
One of the most accessible materials for fence building is anger. Try as one might to keep anger stapled to the storeroom shelf, the momentum of a slippery challenge makes it too easy to lose grip and slide majestically off the handle! When anger becomes air born, entire store rooms hosting anger, can easily become molten into unfriendly boundary fences.
Neighbor kids running across a freshly seeded lawn, is just one incident that usually unsettles bushels of anger, then used for establishing firm boundary fences. These boundary fences are determinedly driven into extremely sticky gravity, leaving no wiggle room for negotiation. Angry looking picket posts, with sharp arrowhead shaped tops, reaching for the skyline. Rails of unpopular English language divide the attitude of those picket posts, shouting sharp commands blindly into the elements.
Another example of a decisive boundary fence is built by aiming ill
intended energy spurts at a moving target. Pulsating anger boundary fences are constructed like an electric fence, terminating dead spots with surprise buzzy impulses. The “other” country neighbor sometimes feels obligated to invest in such protection when one’s hog fences, sheep fences and/or cattle fences are in poor repair and livestock tends to roam.
Jeremiah provides an additional surprise "buzzy" to this boundary fence, a one hundred and twenty pound hunk of muscle, “Danger!” Danger is assigned to keep Moe’s Holsteins out of Jeremiah’s cabbage patch, “Final!”
It seems one might easily eliminate some of these fences between fences and celebrate the beginnings of new relationships. Couldn’t a platter of freshly baked cookies, a hand full of directives and a knock on the neighbor’s door, reshape these unfriendly boundary fences between fences.
That unfriendly picket fence could suddenly become a friendly boundary fence, beautifying the landscape and “Danger” could greet Moe with an energetic, pulsating tail and wear a broad toothed grin for Moe‘s well behaved Holsteins! Moe might even find time to repair his five strand barbed wire cattle fence if he had a warm, happy cookie inside his appetite.
Then there are the see through fences, made up of ego transparencies, weaving in and out between fences, stretching all the way from satisfaction to envy. These fences between fences find their strength in badly split rails and are usually a push over.
Then, there’s the Hedge Trees, dropping their green apples through each others branches while pheasant, quail, rabbit and squirrel come to table.
The original purpose for the hedge row fence was to discourage
Wheatland’s precious top soil from taking flight and racing with the winds to the checkered flag.
There are other planted and some neatly trimmed, live boundary fences between fences and between neighbors. Many of these are “Talk across” fences. A more intense study between these fences could reveal many friendly conversations lifted over the tippy tippy tops of these alert branches, carried back and forth from neighbor to neighbor, without fumbling a single word.
The chain link fence is commonly placed between fences to shield luscious garden areas against varmint intrusion. It is also an old stand-by structure that helps keep unwatched outdoor pets from visiting unknown properties. It is also an excellent material to provide a safe zone around a lagoon.
A stone fence is mainly an addition to the landscape and most often used for dividing owner’s properties from right-of-ways. Most of these fences are relatively useless. They are usually built as low as a “talk over” fence, but stone somehow lacks the friendliness of branches waving.
Another fence between fences is the bored fence. The first bored fence that comes to mind stands with it’s back to a public road. It sports relatively tall boards standing cozily side by side, desperately working at blocking the unsightly view of a salvage yard! How much more intense can boring get?
The fence that thinks it is the most important fence between fences, isn’t a fence at all, it’s a gate. This gate has the personality of a cowbird. The cowbird doesn’t build it’s own nest, but relies entirely on other birds to hatch it’s eggs and raise it‘s young. So it is with this gate, the gate doesn’t wait for it's space in a new fence that’s being built, it chooses already existing structures to fit it‘s way into. This is a very friendly gate to adults but becomes a real nuisance for toddlers! The gate is used primarily indoors and feels most important when it can prevent a toddler from toppling down a set of stairs between fences!
The fence that thinks it is the most important fence between fences, isn’t a fence at all, it's a gate!

I received the following email the very same moment I posted yesterday’s blog about the English alphabet. Is this amazing or what? I’ve seen this tid-bit before, but the unique timing is incredible!
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English
will be the official language of the European Union rather than German,
which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in
plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will
make the sivil servants jump with joy.
The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
"z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining
"ou" and after ziz fifz yer , ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
forst plas.
If zis mad you smil, pas on to oza pepl

The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
II find this very interesting.
Makes one wonder when and why the ampersand was dismissed, are there other letters in our alphabet that should be.

Today’s blog is the first part of a children’s story that I wrote and shared with a group of pre-school age children some time ago. I think there might be something in it for us grown kids to think about as well, so here it is.
Last Monday evening, I did a very hard job. Did you ever do something that was very hard to do? Well, last Monday I did something that was very hard for me to do. What I did was, I tried to figure out why some things we do are fun to do and other things we do are not so much fun to do. You see, some things I do, I like to do very much, and some things I do, I do not like to do very much. So, I was just sitting last Monday, thinking really hard. Just what is it that makes some things we do, fun to do and other things we do, not so much fun to do. Do you know what that little piece of magic is that makes some things we do fun to do and when that magic is missing, the things we do aren’t fun to do?