Our word for today is “artisanal” or artisnal. – made in a traditional, non-mechanical way – made by hand. It applies mainly to food or drink, such as, bread kneaded by hand, possibly using a homemade starter. Artisnal also refers to locally made cheeses, beers, preserves…the list goes on. These foods are a little more […]
Our word for today is “felt.” As as noun it means a cloth made by pressing or rolling fibre together. As a verb, to felt, is the process of pressing fibres together to make a cloth or a shape. Felting, in fact, is an art form, with artists creating amazing pieces in every dimension!! They
Our word for today is “fulcrum.” I have a love-hate relationship with this word. It means a pivotal point. In fact, fulcrums are essential, if you want an “easy life.” Think of the importance of hinges on doors, or that gadget that holds an oar in place on a row boat or the small grey
Our word for today is “medium.” On the surface, it’s a very common, unpretentious, almost banal word. Do not be deceived! It has a depth, that borders on the mystical…… I first thought of “The Medium is the Message.” I’m a great fan of Marshall McLuhan, who was probably the first person to make us
Our word for today is “hangover.” It might be more appropriate to write this for New Year’s Day, when celebrants have had too much alcohol to drink the night before. Of course, some have hangovers everyday. So today would be just like any other. Fortunately, it’s been a long time since I’ve suffered a hangover
It was my turn to provide a word for our writing exercise today. Sometimes, it’s not easy to just “come up with a word.” Yes, verbiage clutters my mind all the time, however, when asked to isolate just one word for a writing exercise, I’m often “stuck.” I did, though, ask the cosmos for this
Today, our writing word is contact. For me, contact, is all about connections… clicking… finding your other half. The other day we were talking about time wasters or maybe they were time soothers, pastimes that eased the troubled mind. Some played solitaire, others did crossword puzzles and still others preferred the more graphic jig saw
It’s been a long time since I’ve written a post. What can I say? Life gets in the way of writing. I know, I’ve said before, if you’re really serious, life should be writing. Well, unfortunately for writing, I happen to be serious about a lot of things. I need to focus! Today, or at
Our writing challenge this time is the word, “rights.” Maybe there is also a bit of synchronicity here too, because someone was reading a post of mine from 2012 about Thunder Bay. I included this quotation in it – “The foolish are like ripples on water, for whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the
