Life is certainly a nice place to visit but I'm indeed happy I don't have to live here...that is, not forever; I'm sure that most of my critics share this happiness. As I casually observe the various "pictures at an exhibition" which attest to our eternally "post-modernist" culture, I truly have to laugh. The trivial quirks and juvenile fancies which assume the status of originality and creativity are legion. The self-consumed rantings and morbid ravings which assume the status ...
Sheesh! I feel like the White Rabbit No time for a whole lot lately! When I get on the computer, I have only a few moments to brief quickly through the many things that I call 'home' here in cyberspace... my favorite place, though, is, well --- you guessed it....LitNet **drum roll** **cymbals** AND ALL THAT JAZZ! It is extremely busy out my way, this final week in June -- what with friends and family graduating. As well I have been tending to some ...
Euphemism is defined thusly: The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive: “Euphemisms such as ‘slumber room’ . . . abound in the funeral business” (Jessica Mitford). [Greek euphēmismos, from euphēmizein, to use auspicious words, from euphēmiā, use of auspicious words : eu-, eu- + phēmē, speech.] It seems euphemisms can be used in various ways...to gloss over unpleasantness, to soften one's ...
Fundamentally we do not exist. Compare Nature in our being: the light which spirals in to shape our hands shapes the motion of Her grace, and spills dawn, and noon, and evening light into our bodies shaping, Her radiance, and whirls our legs in stars, in bright stars, Her elegance; and our looks, like blocks projecting: black black black black black
Okay okay so I haven’t blogged for ages. I’ve had nothing to say. I’ve done nothing. Been nowhere. But something strange happened to me last night, well it was actually the morning, just after 12. Hang on. I need to set the scene a bit here. A couple of years ago I went to Jersey and went to a place called Treasures of the Earth where I looked up my star sign and found my lucky stone. I figured why not, I might as well and so bought a necklace made from that stone. I wore it a lot. ...
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