Our word for today is Flattery – “undue praise” or “showing something to advantage.” I rarely flatter. I may compliment someone and definitely thank anyone for help, freely given or not. But I can truly say that I would not praise someone, unless they genuinely deserved it. In fact, for years, I tended to point […]
Our word for today is stubborn. I like to think of it as persistent. The refusal to give up. I am mentally working on an idea. This may sound redundant. Having ideas is already a mental activity. But I am churning them over in my mind or, at least, one of them. I want to
Our word today is personality. So, I did one of those online personality tests. Here’s the site, if you’d like to try – https://www.16personalities.com/ They really are very good at defining your inner self from just a few questions. I don’t usually take these tests seriously, however, I was a little stunned, when the description of my personality
Our word for today is turbulent – agitated. There are a lot of synonyms for turbulent, from something as mild as, disorder to something as frightening as violent. I remember the comments when both Trump and Ford were elected. People said that they wanted to, “shake things up a bit.” They had become complacent with
Our word for today is awe – a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder. I like the synonym “wonderment.” Too often we use words such as awesome, awful, overawed, without thinking. The feeling of awe is quite profound. I think it should be reserved for those fall on your knees moments of real
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
