For Saturday, August 13: Breakdown

Jack Johnson is not new the music scene, unfortunately he is to me. Now, fortunately, my siblings introduced him to me and so now I'm not so much out of the loop! :)
Johnson is one of those artists that if you aren't in the mood for music but some needs to be playing in your background he fits the bill. And when you are in the mood he fits that as well! Lucky for him I suppose. :)
This particular song makes me want to go sit on a shaded beach with a cold drink and a good book that I don't mind putting down from time to time to listen to the waves. The song is kind of about that actually. Wishing for a breakdown from something practical in order to get a break from life. A breakdown of the other kind doesn't necessarily lend to a good break from life. :)
What kind of breakdown could you facilitate for your life in the next few days or weeks? Don't forget, if we don't take breaks from life in whatever way soothes us then we will have one of those "other" breakdowns! :)

Breakdown

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Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

A dime a dozen

"It's said that in the year 1796, the first U.S. dimes were produced for circulation. Hence, it would make sense for this phrase to originate sometime after." Read more here . Today the phrase carries the meaning that something is cheap or without value if it can be lumped in with other similar or exactly-like things. It's more of an insult than anything.

Life according to van Gogh...sort of

There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it; how to do it -- with much drawing and little color; how not to do it -- with much color and little drawing. Vincent van Gogh in a l etter to Theo van Gogh, April 1882 Life is a little bit like today's quote from van Gogh. Some of us live life focusing on the drawing - the details - and have very little color. Others of us go for the color and forsake, to a degree, the drawing - the details. Unlike painting, according to van Gogh, one is not wrong over the other but somewhere in between the two would be the best I would think. If you look at some of van Gogh's paintings I feel like you can see where he might have struggled between the "how to do it" and the " how not to do it" (as he admittedly loved color so much but knew he had to focus more on the drawing) and that seems to be reflected in his life as well. In the end he wasn't able to find the ...

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