Our word for today is “band” – it has many meanings. The first to come to mind is music – the camaraderie of music. People coming together to play instruments, sing, express joy. I’m not good enough to play my piano in a band, but my writing partner plays the flute and has joined a […]
Our writing word for today is “shame.” I have heard it often. “What a shame you didn’t come last week, the weather was perfect … or you would have met so and so … or … the list goes on. Yes, I have had my fair share of disappointments. So many in fact, that I’ve
Our writing word for today is “passage.” I always think of passage as a very grand word. It reminds me of long journeys by sea to distant lands. Wealthy people booked passages on steamships to the Orient. Or they took exotic train journeys, rail passages, to Istanbul. The poor took passages too. Their journeys, though,
Our writing word for today is “Death.” Well, I suppose it’s important to think about the end of the story, as we read or write along. I somehow like to think, that if my life were a book, it would be a long (maybe slow) read. War and Peace comes to mind, as do these
Assembly is our writing word for today. Given that I have recently assembled a few purchases from Ikea, I’m not surprised that this word, just popped into my head 🙂 In fact, if the truth were known, I have, over the years collected (and assembled) more than my share of Billys, Gronlids, Ekeros, etc, etc.
Our word for today is “shadow.” I’ve written about shadows before – The shadow knows. Shadow is an old word, from the mid 1300s in Old English via Dutch and German and possibly, Greek. Such a word will have developed many meanings. Ultimately, shadow means the interruption of light by something opaque. This is its
Our word for today is “obsession.” Its synonyms are – passion, mania, compulsion, addiction, craze, hobby horse… wait hobby horse? How did that get in there? I had to find out. Well, one of my obsessions might very well be words – their meaning, usage and origin, as a start. So how do you get
In an earlier post, I wrote rather lightly about our word for the day, obsession. It is anything but light. Obsession is a passion. It may, however, manifest itself, in what others consider light or frivolous. Obsession is anything but frivolous. It is for many, a reason to live. A reason to get up in
Our word for today is “starter.” I had been writing about making a starter, a leavening agent for bread, so it’s an interesting word to explore. Beginnings, “starts” are always challenging. I remember, in my twenties, when I was about to begin a planned trip to live abroad, in Europe, for a few years, I
