poetry break!

while i was cleaning today, i found a stack of index cards that mr. andrew and i had done a long time ago. i wanted to share some:



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Yes, you are quite beautiful STOP
But i find that besides the point STOP
I am writing to tell you that i am not coming to your mother's this thanksgiving, or next STOP

I am staying here in the mountains STOP
please rent out my room END TRANSMISSION


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Oh God, what am i doing here?

I don't know my lines.


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It felt like rain was coming down on me

but there had not been rai n here for several years
you
you cannot know

the way it rolls your spirit through God's great
fingers.

I was in the hands of God that day
When the rains fell.


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word of the day - 16 october 2010

beard n. probably from proto-indo-european bhar-dha, which begat the germanic offshoots of west germanic barthaz and latin barba (see also: barber; consider also: barbarian (from latin barbarus)).

the interesting thing is that all of these words aren't composites of other words, with roots and prefixes and such - beard is such a basic, close-to-nature thing that it is very fully its own word.

words of the day - 10 October 2010

these words are not my own musings, but mr. andrew showed me this wonderful article on words from other languages that have no english translation (ie. schadenfreude, wabi-sabi, toska). very cool.

jason wire's '20 awesomely untranslatable words from around the world'.

"Toska

Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: 'No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.'"

word of the day - 3 october 2010

mag.na.ni.mi.ty n. from latin (surprise!) magnus, meaning 'great', root of mega (see also: magnum opus, magnum p.i.), and animus, meaning 'soul' or 'mind', but finding its roots in ane-, 'to breathe' or, more specifically, 'to exhale'. animus is also the root word of animal, so, at least in latin, animals do have souls!

h'm!