The Ultimate Speaking Engagement—Enfranchised? Dis-enfranchised? And the Collateral Damage.

When will we ever learn?

Freedom is not free.

Freedom can be scary.

Freedom can be beautiful.

The next time you have a flag nearby🇺🇸

Gestures and gesticulations matter.

So do words. Deeds. Actions.

Translations matter. Here. There. Everywhere.

While contemplating a move here best to study the history. The historical rules. The historical rulings.

A lesson in language:

To grant the privilege of voting. The privilege of voting.

Armenian, Dutch, Finnish, Russian, Swedish. There are various spellings. Various intentions. Various motivations.

Key word: Privilege.

To grant municipal or parliamentary rights. Rights.

Dutch, Finnish, Swedish. There are various spellings. Various intentions. Various motivations.

To grant freedom from servitude. Servitude.

Armenian, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish. there are various spellings. Various intentions. Various motivations.

Some curious. Some precarious. Some precious.

Lost.

Lost in translation.

The etymology of enfranchise is “enfranchir”. Meaning to “set free”, enfranchise.

To set free.

I’m free.

You’re free.

We are all free.

Free to be you and me.

Except it hasn’t quite worked out well. Not nowadays anyways.

Further:

1. To grant privilege of voting to a person or group of people.
2. To grant municipal or parliamentary rights to an entity such as a city or a constituency.
3. To grant freedom from slavery, duty, or servitude.

Example: 1842 [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or Keeping up Appearances. […], volume ll, London: Henry Colburn, […],>OCLC, page 288

Parental control. Yes even a “thing” in 1842.

“Parental control has been so decisive in Louisa’s case that marriage bonds had not hitherto enfranchised her from the former; she, therefore, at the proper time of light, appeared on the arm of Signor Riccardini, and laid her purse on the lap of her mother who she knew had at least three hundred pounds in possession), at the risk of deemed extravagant by her husband.

Conversions can bite.

Property-wise, historically too.

Real estate agents beware.

Conversion a copyhold estate into a freehold estate is never.

Free.

Mansions. Estates. Give-aways. Got-aways.

Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Clutch too.

The Damage has been done

Now what?

It is too late.

It is too late sometimes when something bad or wrong has already happened and cannot be changed.

Just because.

Alduterated. One way or another.

Aldulteration. One way of another.

Truth be told. Adulting is hard. Difficult. Sometimes. Oftentimes. Just no fun.

Truth be told. The truth may be rarely told.

Adulting is adulting for a reason. When we choose not to, adult, we sometimes stomp our foot in child-like manners of gargantuan matters. 😳

Wartime tactics: Childlike tactics. May include:

Upset the apple art. One way or another.

To cause trouble or to spoil. One way or another.

At the expense of or to spoil. One way or another.

At risk, in danger of being harmed or damaged, or of dying.One way or another.

Butcher. One way or another.

Butcher. One way or another. To kill people in a very violent way or in large numbers.

Eat away at something. One way or another. to gradually damage or destroy something.

Erode. One way or another.

Erode and rub or be rubbed away gradually. One way or another.

Flaw. One way or another.

Flaw to a fault, a mistake, or weakness, especially one that happens while something is being planned or made, it that causes something not to be perfect. One way or another.

Foul. One way or another.

Foul as extremely unpleasant. One way or another.

Foul something up. One way or another.

Foul something to a spoil of something by making a mistake or doing something stupid.

Stupid.

Gild the lily. One way or another.

Gild the lily to improve or decorate something that is already perfect and therefore spoil it. One way or another.

Gloss. One way or another.

Gloss a smooth, shiny place on the surface of something.

ON THE SURFACE OF SOMETHING. One way or another.

Rain on someone’s parade. One way or another.

Rain on someone’s parade so as to do something that spoils someone’s plans. One way or another.

Rampage. One way or another.

Rampage so as to go through an area making a lot of noise and causing damage. One way or another.

Ravage. One way or another.

Ravage. To cause great damage to something or someone. One way or another.

Ravages. One way or another.

Ravages the time caused by disease, time, war, etc. One way or another.

Ruin. One way or another.

Ruin something so as to spoil or destroy something completely. One way or another.

Wreck. One way or another.

Wreck so as to destroy or badly damage something or someone.

Wartime tactics and lessons may include, but are not limited to: alloy, bands, bang someone up, bastardize, be hoisted with/by your own petard, bite, blemish, blight, bollix, burn, bust, bust up.

BUST UP.

Come between someone, deform, degradation, despoliation, drive a wedge between, gilt, kibosh, make a muck, mess around with something, mockers, monkey, poison, pot, punish, taint, take the floors off of something, touch, trash, unstitch, wear someone out, west, write something off, worn.

BRING IT ON.

At the end of a day. A question we must ask ourselves is why are we here?

Revenge.

Regard.

Reunion.

Re-birth.

Sabotage?

Born again.

Enveloping into another’s existence is just that enveloping. Obnubilate. Cloud. In the way. Obtainable. Unobtainable.

Free?

Not bloody likely.

Unobtainable to the point to and of our/the existence of being free from impediment or obstruction or hindrance.

How will you and when you you begin to fight for your freedom. Your ability to say, “I’m free.”

Freedom only exists if and when you fight for it.

Obnubilation or Jubilation?

Darkening clouds or bright joyful ones.

Your freedom depends on your choices.

Your choices depend on your freedoms.

St. Augustine empower us to free ourselves. How?

By confession.

By confessions. By sinful thoughts, words and actions turned into bright light, conversion of and from and a turn away from immoral thoughts, words and actions.

Our restlessness.

Our boastfulness.

All put to the daily test. Of our ultimate speaking engagement and our confession of the soul. Request, deep and heartfelt request for forgiveness. The moment we wait at the other side of the gate and pray our darn hardest for it to

Please open up to me.✌️