Out of the corner
of my eye, “nativity” appeared to be “naivety.” An honest reading mistake.
In the 21st Century, naivete (or the British naivety) helps people believe. Truth to tell though, if anyone had a naïve young adulthood, I did. In my late-blooming, sheltered mid-twenties, I went to my dad and earnestly said, “People who believe in God…they’re just pretending to believe in it, right?”
In the 21st Century, naivete (or the British naivety) helps people believe. Truth to tell though, if anyone had a naïve young adulthood, I did. In my late-blooming, sheltered mid-twenties, I went to my dad and earnestly said, “People who believe in God…they’re just pretending to believe in it, right?”
According to an article in The New Yorker,
when a person sees something, only 20% of the image is created by nerve endings
in the eye. The other 80%? Memory.
Explains a lot. Fully 80% comes
from that part of the brain that controls memory. Which is why my particular eye/brain combo
came up with naivety. People see what
they want to see. Ex-Yankee pitcher Roger Clemens thought that the fat one-third of a shattered baseball bat was in fact a baseball. Maybe that's not the best example.
Another word I
have misread is “storied.” The day after
Bonds hit homer number 756, the photo caption read, “Bonds breaks Aaron’s
storied home run record.” Can you think
of an apt anagram for the word “storied?”
Need more time? I’ll wait. By the way, I am not suggesting that Hammerin’ Hank used performance
enhancing drugs, naturally. I'm suggesting the virgin did. (Oprah to conduct seance.)
Of course, for many people, sports is their religion. Only instead of putting the cash in a collection plate, they give it to the beer and hot dog guy.
Tithing to the god of nitrates, saturated fat and alcohol. Seeing what you want to see. And you don’t want to see how they make the
hot dogs. Or the "miracles."
