Our word today is suicide….. I had posted earlier, that a friend had recently committed suicide. It’s a tragic act, a devastation for family and friends. The seminal work on suicide is still a book published in 1897 – Emile Durkheim’s, Suicide. Many years ago, in my third year of university, I wrote a paper […]
Our word today is pacify, to soothe. Although, pacify has a number of synonyms, soothe is the one I like the best. I immediately thought of the phrase, “to soothe the troubled mind.” In fact, I keyed this phrase into Google and came up with quite a list of suggestions to ease the troubled mind.
Serendipity is our word for today. It means good luck. A while ago, I read an article about how to attract good luck. It was mainly about keeping an open mind and buying lottery tickets. I rarely buy lottery tickets, but I decided to keep a diary of the “good luck” that happened to me
When confusion reigns, we get a mash-up!! Our word for today is incandescent. I confused it with iridescent and immediately thought of glowing. I did a quick search, and I still didn’t see my mistake! emitting light as a result of being heated. “plumes of incandescent liquid rock” synonyms: white-hot, red-hot, burning, fiery, blazing, ablaze, aflame; passionate or
Our word for today is conversation. I have to believe that in today’s world of 140 (now 280) characters or less, it’s difficult to have a real conversation. Now, there are more coffee houses these days, where people meet up, maybe just to look at their phones together, however, I have to believe they chat
Our word today is “image.” I like it because it’s the basis of the word imagine. To me imagination is all about creating images of what might be. For example, it took some brilliant person to imagine the wheel or to think we could fly. Every small step from the stone age to this electronic
….and tomorrow….and tomorrow. Yes, we could let our lives slip away, always hoping that a tomorrow will be better than a today. I have already earmarked a wait of four years until Doug Ford is gone and worse case scenario – six years until Trump is gone – alas!! Time to start living today!! I
Interview is our word for today and I think it’s very interesting. Interviews always have several agendas (agendum), though. Someone wants the information you have. However, what you say and how you say it is something else, entirely. In this age of identity theft, we have to be so careful about the information we give
Our word for today is fête. It’s French for celebration. Posting about bread, or at least grain, yesterday, had me thinking about festivities. I equate festivities with food. Or, maybe, it’s food that makes things festive. Lunch, with a baguette from Jules, our French patisserie around the corner, and some cheese is always a celebration,
