As a matter of fact, I have been through most of the doors in this photo. The church and the Capitol. So there! It is kind of appropriate (in my opinion), that a lunch meeting I attended today was held in a place that overlooked these buildings. And that later this afternoon, I checked in to the Texas Association of REALTORS® (Texas REALTORS®) Winter Meeting. My first meeting was at 6:30 PM, and it is now 10:30, and that meeting just concluded. It is going to be several long and informative and productive and deliberately fulfilling days. I could not be more proud of my profession, and for what we, as a group, stand for.Facile -- Adjective: 1a. easily accomplished, handled, or attained. 1b. shallow, simplistic. 2a. ready, fluent. b. poised, assured. The author has been criticized for offering facile solutions to a set of very complicated problems.
Did You Know? Would you have guessed that facile and difficult are related? They are! Facile comes to us through Middle French, from the Latin word facilis, meaning "easy," and ultimately from facere, meaning "to make or do." Difficult traces to facilis as well, but its history also involves the negative prefix dis-, meaning "not." Facile can mean "easy" or "easily done," as befits its Latin roots, but it now often adds the connotation of undue haste or shallowness, as in "facile answers to complex questions."
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