Four wild ones (inspired by Christi)

 

These are all inspired by Christi's versals. I could work harder to make my versals more like Christi's but her style is so personal that it would feel more like forgery to try to write exactly like her. So, I did what I always do - I went looser. I also used more color. Amy's was the first and it's tighter - which might be a good thing or maybe the looser ones are better? I think it might be a sheep/goat situation.

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A couple days ago when I was writing about the minimalist lifestyle that Juliana should not be thinking about - I wondered - when did the word lifestyle become *a thing.*

I also want to know when did saying *a thing* become a thing? But, I don't feel like researching that. I did ask TheSoCalledKeeperOfInformation to tell us when lifestyle became a word and it was first used in a journal titled Mind in 1915. Then in 1929 Alfred Adler used it:

Alfred Adler coined "lifestyle" (originally from the German Lebensstil) to describe a person's unique way of striving toward goals and coping with their environment. In this context, a lifestyle was considered "fixed" by age six and included a person's self-concept and world view.

But - that's not how we currently use it -- in the 50s and 60s it turned into a term used in marketing - which was the slippery slope that we've been dealing with our whole lives - if we are a boomer.