Nov 27 2022 - Writing to Santa

 

How is it possible to write to Santa?  Children don't learn recursive writing anymore.   Do they pop off an email? Of course they do.  What is Santa's email address?  Which one would you like?  Here's one  listed as santa@officialsantaemail.com,  Or you can go online to Elfontheshelf.com/kids and choose the activities tae and then click on write to Santa and this will pop up.   Wait!  You can email Santa at email santa.com and up pops the Naught or Nice List with Cassie K. in Calgary, Maya O. in Sydney and so on.  And the joke of the day?  What kind of money do they use in the North pole?  Cold cash! More opportunities abound.  In Canada you can email to www.canadapost.ca/santascorner. Would you be tempted to cover the bases and write to Santa via as many different emails as possible?  Would you ask for different presents with each email or the same one multiple times?  Which strategy would you go for?   Yesterday, I put most of my raffle tickets into the ladder tree, hoping I will win the vintage ladder and can use it as a garden feature. Santa visited Grimsby yesterday.  Here's a collage of our memories of Santa at the Fantasy of trees over the last few years.   Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblog.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

No Longer Cursive

Cursive is the term we used for writing script or longhand. There's formal and casual cursive.  There's looped, italic and connected.  Everything we know about cursive, though, is not very important - it has left the curriculum of today's school classrooms as we really aren't writing much anymore. What other skills are no longer needed? reading paper maps writing cheques and balancing a cheque book telephone etiquette sewing  ironing Add these to the list: long division or any arithmetic metric conversions finding true north clipping coupons remembering .... e.g. phone numbers I asked the all-important question: What are the replacement skills that we need to learn now? Here's one list I found: expert data analysis advanced social selling mobile expertise multi-platform UX (UX is user experience) design network and information security creative thinking It is the last one that worries me.  It is not in the same class as clipping coupons. I am warned that the fourth industrial revolution is here next year - in 2020 - bringing advanced robotics and autonomous transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced materials, biotechnology and genomics.  What will we need for these areas? And then I also wonder: what skills will seem like clipping coupons in 2030? Today's pictures are of the Kingston waterfront sculpture named "Time" - created by Kosso Eloul in 1973 to celebrate Kingston's Tercentenary.  There was so much driving rain though - you can see the spots on the lens.  There are too many to photoshop them away.

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