Pocketful of Memory Cards

It's been years since I've seen in the New Year, but last night, despite a wretched cold, I hung out with my hubby and my daughter on the couch while we watched movies, munched on chips and dip and drank bubbly beverages until we switched to a delayed Niagara Falls feed at two minutes to midnight to ring in the New Year. My daughter picked the movies, one of which was Yes Man .  We'd all seen it before, but she thought it was a movie with a message appropriate to the beginning of a New Year.  If you haven't seen this movie, it's well worth viewing.  If you have seen it and you're over 40 you've probably don't remember most of it so you'll still enjoy it the second time 'round. (FYI, though it's rated PG13 there is one scene that might be objectionable to some.)   The movie is about a loans officer named Carl Allen, played by Jim Carrey.  He' a lonely man who has given up on life until he is convinced to say Yes to everything....

I often have these sudden realizations.  Most of the time it has to do with a word that I've used or written hundreds of time, never thinking about the etymology of it.  It's often a compound word that has it's  meaning within it.  One day it will jump out at me and I'll think  Huh, I've never thought of that before, neat!   It's just a matter of changing perspective I guess.  The way you've been looking at something shifts just a bit and you see it from a different angle.  Sometimes it's so obvious it can be embarrassing. This week I experienced it when I met someone named Sandra whose full name is Alexandra.  My mom's name was Sandra and by pure coincidence our daughter's middle name is Alexandra.  Now that I know I really wish I could tell her.  Perhaps she figured it out, she was a pretty smart cookie.  It's only taken me twenty two years to realize the connection.  I can tell my daughter though.  I think...