Salutations, Gentle Reader,
While winter’s grip continues to weaken and spring’s gentle warmth takes the baton, one week into baseball season does not offer me any prevalent sense of confidence. The Yankees have yet to really dominate a game and have been smacked around a couple of times already. Perhaps it’s folly to expect New York to perpetually be the kings of diamonds, but after all, we are the Yankees. As Joe Girardi has said, “Anything short of a World Series title here is considered a failure.”
As I stated on my personal Facebook page this morning, “If a hallmark or responsibility is being at your job on time–even early–following a night of friendly discourse and sipping suds in Midtown, then I have enough hallmark to open a card shop.” All drollery aside, I had the privilege and pleasure of spending time with a treasured friend, Blake, and some tasty beer. Generally, I take pains to avoid any alcohol when the Black Dog is around, but last night I believe the drollery, the heart to heart conversation, and the libations helped to muzzle that ol’ cur. Regardless, I was still in the International Headquarters of Sommerlyn Associates, LLC bright eyed and bushy-tailed, and ahead of most of my colleagues. With such ooommph!, perhaps an addition to our rhetorical toolbox is in order. Shall we?
Word of the Day: DRUNG
DRUNG: narrow road or path to a field or pasture
Real Estate Connection: Actually, drungs were either the genesis or the result of the property law concept of easements. Farmers with grazing animals occasionally needed access from one field or pasture to another. The paths the animals used, drungs, occasionally crossed property lines. After disputes, courts ruled that a landowner must be guaranteed access to her or his property, leading to legally recognized easements. You might suspect that in a place like New York City, there would be no drungs, and in a sense, you’d be correct. In another sense, though, drungs still are a part of Gotham’s cityscape. Throughout The City, one can find areas named “Mews”. Mews is a derivative of “meadows”. Especially below 14th Street, one can find winding streets in close proximity to these “mews”. That’s because those mews really were meadows, and those twisting winding streets were originally drungs. Another example of drungs that became streets: most of Boston, which is why one would be crazy to drive there. Then again, Boston is home to the red sox. Do I really have to say anything else? LOL!
Sullivan Mews, NYC
Challenge: Allow the literal to transform to the figurative. What are the drungs of your life? What are the narrow passages that you’re having to go through to your meadows of peace, prosperity, and success?
Gay Street, in West Village, is an example of a drung.
Remain calm, and speak well.
Be kind to yourself. Be kind to the planet and the future. Cause no suffering. Go Vegan!
David!
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