Sep 2 2022 - Arguably the Greatest

 

What a turn of phrase:  "arguably the greatest".   Here's the quote from the NY Times: "So it should be for the woman who appears to be moving on from the game after becoming arguably the greatest tennis player ever, male or female." It is about Serena Williams.  What is the rationale to  qualify her accomplishments?  It must be about how the greatest tennis players are measured.  Wikipedia has the answer with the 100 Greatest of All Time - a sports television series in 2012.  It presented a list of 100 tennis players to be considered the greatest of all time, both men and women.  They ranked 62 mean nd 38 women.  But that was in 2012 where Serena was ranked 14 and Roger Federer was ranked 1. Another article published in July 2022 says that  Margaret Court of Australia with 24 major titles was  "crowned by experts the best player of all time."  That article had Serena Williams as number 2 with 23 major titles.  So if Serena gets 24 major titles, she would be "unarguably the greatest female tennis player of all time",  I expect.  Would they change the article to catch up with the facts?  "Arguably" is used when giving one's opinion to say that there are good reasons why something might be true.  "Arguably the greatest hero we've ever seen. "   Would you like 159 more examples of this phrase in use?  Go HERE.  You can vote them up.  Once you start to scroll through them, it deteriorates into a run of comedic "nonsense sentences."  There must be more than 159 sentences.

My only experience with tennis is taking pictures of the Toronto Tennis Club quite a few years ago.  This was one of the walls of the building and the walkway along the courts. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblog.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

Jan 17 2022 - How High is the Ocean - How Deep is the Snow

 

Millie growled when she looked out at the back yard this morning.  She didn't like what she saw.  Really deep snow.  And it is getting deeper as we type. She had to go outside immediately when we got up and she isn't usually interested in going outside till after 8:00am or so.  She jumped down one stair - fine.  The second stair - OK. The third stair - Oh Oh. The fourth stair - just her head was above the snow line and that was too much.  She rushed back up the stairs and in the house, spreading snow bits everywhere.   This is the first big snow fall this year.  Last year she was smaller  and the big snow not so deep so she played happily in it. So we'll see this morning what she decides to do.   I was so intrigued with the tennis news this past week.  Novak Djokovic, the 34-year-old Serbian tennis champ currently ranked number one by the Association of Tennis Professionals by a substantial margin is unvaccinated for COVID-19. He was deported from Australia Sunday following a highly visible appeal.   He's done a lot of testing positive for COVID-19 supposedly within the last month. And he's been out in public a lot as well.  Flying here and there, etc.  That's a big contrast with the Olympics coming up.  The Beijing Olympics are already in the 'closed loop'.  It is sealed and guarded.  The loop, which began on Jan. 4 and will open fully by Jan. 23, according to state media, covers sealed-off sections of Olympic venues and designated accommodation, amounting to a series of bubbles.  Participants are required to move between them using designated transport. Everyone in the loop must have a daily PCR test administered by staff. In Tokyo, tests were largely self-administered. To leave their accommodation, participants must first scan their pass and wait for a green code to confirm they’ve had a negative test result within the last 24 hours. Comparing the situation of Australia and China, we are likely in for a lot of COVID news at the Olympics. It will make this Olympics the most exciting ever for reasons entirely other than sports.  Beijing's event is a large-scale experiment to be watched as much by scientists and politicians as by sports fans. Can there be a special COVID wave at the Olympics?   Isn't this such a great representation of the mysteries beyond.  We visited Brock University's new performing arts centre in 2017 and these were two of the images manipulated with Flaming Pear's India Ink plugin.

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