Here’s a short list of words and phrases that I believe need a vacation.  Or we need the vacation and the words/phrases can hang around with each other:

1. Vibrant – particularly in connection with parishes, arts centers, or community get-togethers
2. Nurturing – any use whatsosever
3. Ironic, irony – high-toned expression of superiority
4. Transformative – huh?
5. Our youth – whatever happened to “boys and girls” or “young men and women”
6. Joining the conversation – I have no idea what this really means, but I believe it has to do with agreeing with your intellectual and/or ethical adversaries to your disadvantage (their idea of a conversation) or having a self-affirmation festival with people who think just like you do
7. Anything that I find myself saying and realize I’ve turned into an unpaid commercial for a product or ideology

Are there other words and phrases that should join the planned round-the-world cruise?  Your additions are welcome.

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