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  "The ability to talk is not the same as the ability to communicate... the ability to communicate is the ability both to send and to receive a message." Brian Tracy May is Speech and Hearing Month! So, because I have trained as a Speech Therapist, I thought this would be a good time to just introduce a few ideas about speech, voice, language, hearing, and the topic of communication. Have you thought about all the many ways you might communicate in a day? Here's s short list, and you may be able to add more. Whether talking on the phone, in-person, face-to-face, on-line, virtual, email, texting, teleconferencing, video, podcasting, giving a speech, at the drive thru, or whatever the medium, you are communicating. But are you really getting thru to the other person; are they really hearing and understanding exactly what you are saying? SHORT QUIZ - What are all the different ways you communicate and with whom: On the Phone, In-Person, Digitally, On Line, Virtual, Remote,...

I r ecently returned from a short cruise. Enjoyed four days on the ocean sailing between Florida and Grand Bahama and Bimini. The weather was perfect, the sea mostly calm, and the ship was big. With over 3000 people on board, this was a great opportunity to meet some new people, have some new experiences, try some new food, and do a lot of people-watching. Learned a lot from watching all those people. I was woefully unprepared. Here is a quote about Travel from Elegance ( circa 1950s) by Genevieve Dariaux: "If you consider that you are far away from home and surrounded by strangers, you are judged entirely on the strength of your external appearance, perhaps you will realize the importance of being flawlessly well-dressed whenever you travel. Which means that your clothes should be perfectly adapted to your role as traveler...On the excuse that travel so often leads to a holiday resort, there is a dismaying tendency today to set forth already dressed for that first sun bath....