And the tradition continues! At about this time last year, I was serving as the Second Vice Chair of TREPAC, and I had attended a day of training at the Texas REALTORS® headquarters. Fast forward one year, today was the first day of training for new TREPAC Trustees, but I had to miss this day of training. Previous obligations. I will attend the spokesperson training tomorrow, and that will be a blast. Texas is chocker-block full of talent, and this class of new Trustees is testimony of all the excellent volunteer servants we have in this great state. So, a year ago (os so), the Leadership Team walked from the restaurant to the Capitol, and we had our picture taken in from of the Texas State Tree. And we did the same thing tonight with a great group of incoming Trustees, along with our newly appointed Vice President of Governmental Affairs. I hope that is the correct title. Things are better in Texas!Flaneur -- Noun. an idle man-about-town. "The flaneurs of centuries past made Paris the literary capital of their world, in part through their stories of roaming its desperately romantic streets." Sasha Abramsky, Sacramento Magazine, August 25, 2017
Did You Know? The flaneur is a familiar figure in literature. The word flaneur inherited connotations akin to dandy and fop from its French forebear flaneur, meaning "idler." The poet Gerard de Nerval, who is said to have occasionally done his wandering with his pet lobster in tow (on a blue ribbon lead), is sometimes cited as a flaneur of this ilk. But Charles Baudelaire, another writer with whom the word is often associated, had a quite serious take on flaneurs: "For the perfect flaneur...it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite" (from "The Painter of Modern Life").
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