“A ceñoso is something too low to kick and too wet to step on.”

A character on the TV show Hunter March 21, 1991.

“Work fast, change speeds, throw strikes.”

The 3 keys to pitching, according to the announcers on Toronto Blue Jays’ game September 5, 1995

Someone’s eagle “really took the wind out of [another player’s] hands.”

Announcer on TBS Jan. 16, 1994, reminiscing about the Hawaiian Open 10 years earlier

“Concerning aesthetic values, I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain, and hear the laugh of a child.”

Frank Capra The Name Above the Title

In my latest Loonie Politics column I question the urgency, given the COVID-19 pandemic, of Canada’s ongoing bid to buy a UN Security Council non-veto seat because otherwise Norway might get it.

“But really, Marilla, one can’t stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?”

Anne in Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Of the things that frighten us, the fear of being left out of the flow of human interaction is certainly one of the worst… In many preliterate cultures solitude is thought to be so intolerable that a person makes a great effort never to be alone; only witches and shamans feel comfortable spending time by themselves…. The Latin locution for ‘being alive’ was inter hominem esse, which literally meant ‘to be among men’; whereas ‘to be dead’ was inter hominem esse desinere, or ‘to cease to be among men.’”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience