Writing my way through the A-to-Z blogging challenge, I’m sharing my thoughts and reflections on a lexicon (vocabulary specific to a certain subject) of unusual, obscure, or simply charming-to-me words. Ludic is defined as “playful, in an aimless way” and that’s my plan for approaching this challenge – keeping my feet on the joy trail […]
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Writing my way through the A-to-Z blogging challenge, I’ve tasked myself with leading you on a meandering tour of the virtual garden of delights and curiosities and thoughts that make up my world – all through the lens of unusual, obscure, or simply charming-to-me words. W is for… wabi-sabi: the discovery of beauty within the […]
Continue reading »This being the final Friday of the month means it’s time for We Are the World Blogfest, a day for promoting positive news. Co-hosting the project this month, the 34th edition, are: Eric Lahti, Susan Scott, Dan Antion, Damyanti Biswas, and Inderpreet Kaur Uppal. Do check out their posts, along with everyone else participating, and feel free to join us here. I […]
Continue reading »Writing my way through the A-to-Z blogging challenge, I’ve tasked myself with leading you on a meandering tour of the virtual garden of delights and curiosities and thoughts that make up my world – all through the lens of unusual, obscure, or simply charming-to-me words. T is for… trangam: (noun) an odd gaget; gewgaw; trinket […]
Continue reading »Writing my way through the A-to-Z blogging challenge, I’ve tasked myself with leading you on a meandering tour of the virtual garden of delights and curiosities and thoughts that make up my world – all through the lens of unusual, obscure, or simply charming-to-me words. R is for… rupestrine: (adj) living or growing on or […]
Continue reading »Today, August 12 is World Elephant Day, dedicated to the preservation and protection of the world’s elephants. There are so many factors endangering the elephant populations, including habitat loss due primarily to deforestation; human-elephant conflict because elephants now must share habitat with humans; and mistreatment in captivity. But by far the greatest danger is due to […]
Continue reading »Writing my way through the A-to-Z blogging challenge, I’ve tasked myself with throwing open the cabinet of curiosities and wondrous things I call my brain and leading you on a tour of what actually resides in there – all through the lens of unusual, obscure, or simply charming-to-me words. U is for… umbraculiform – 1. […]
Continue reading »February 13th has been celebrated as Self Love Day for years, thanks mainly to Christine Arylo’s efforts. I think it’s a brilliant, much needed idea to bring the topic into public awareness. I get that Valentine’s Day can be emotionally loaded for an infinite variety of reasons for many people, but the purpose of today’s […]
Continue reading »The last Friday of the month means it’s time once again for one of my favorite days. A day for promoting positive news via We Are the World Blogfest. It delights me to participate as an agent of pronoia along with dozens of other ambassadors highlighting feel-good news stories for us all to celebrate. Cohosting the […]
Continue reading »Writing my way through the A-to-Z blogging challenge, I’ve tasked myself with exploring the concepts of pronoia (the belief that the universe is conspiring to shower us with blessings), quiety (serenity) and peace – all through the lens of unusual, obscure, or simply delightful-to-me words. F is for…firgun. Firgun is an interesting word – an informal […]
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