I came across a peculiar piece of syntax in the newspaper the other day. It was in an obituary about a very interesting woman, who had led an amazing life. In the litany of achievements she had accomplished was the note that she was a serial “marrier”- meaning, I presume, that she had had several […]
On Wednesday I bought the book “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.” It has added a good deal of Joy to my week. I wrote about the book in an earlier post so I won’t bore you with repetition. Writing lots of words strung together and contemplating individual words give me a lot of Joy. Fortunately
Dynamopia as substitutes for Koenig’s word “The Til” meaning “that reservoir of opportunities still available to you at this point in your life.” Yes, we do need a word for what energy remains in our bodies to explore, pursue, develop, create. It must, though, be a dynamic word, something with enough force to stir our
…or the soul talking. I’m still completely overwhelmed by “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.” I can spend half an hour or more contemplating one word. This morning I browsed through a few in the first ten pages and came upon “jouska” from the French “jusqu’a” – until. It’s a comment on the interior monologues most
Today I bought “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” by John Koenig. I have mentioned this book before in an earlier post. It’s a must read for anyone interested in words. Basically, it is a lexicon of terms the author has coined to deal with those feelings we all have, but are unable to express because
This week it rained. I have been praying for rain for weeks now. Well my prayers have been answered. I have also been praying for a lot of other “things;” I guess rain was the easiest to deliver. 🙂 The garden needed rain. This is the Yin Yang of gardening. We need rain. It comes
Mostly the weather this week has been very “unjoyous.” After a week of summer, we are back into the cold and grey of a Winter/Spring. However, coffee this week with a friend was joyous! In fact my friend recommended a book that I might like – “Obscure Sorrows.” The author, John Koenig, creates words based
OK, I probably didn’t have to put the word, ovenable, in quotation marks. It is a word, as words go, however, I have never heard it before. Yes, I have a Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and it is, sad to say, not in it. Well, it’s an old edition. I actually found the word “ovenable”
Our writing word for our writing challenge this time is “thinking.” Well, I have just spent several hours online trying to find a collection of books by Edward de Bono. He is the authority on thinking, especially creative thinking. I once had a good selection of his 70 odd books, but only two have survived
…This was a week of complications. I had to find Joy in the uncomplicated or in the unravelling of the complicated. Here’s how it went…. 1. I tried to set up an account with a money transferring service only to find that I couldn’t connect my phone to my wifi at work – lost password.
