Come April. I will be one of hundreds of other bloggers posting our way through the alphabet in the annual month-long Blogging from A-to-Z challenge. Given my penchant for creating abecedariums, how can I resist? Today we’ve been encouraged to “reveal our theme” – what we’ll be spending the month of April writing about. Finally, after […]
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Working my way through the alphabet via the A-to-Z blogging challenge, I’m writing a manifesto and working with unusual words. Today let’s talk cryptonyms. Cryptonym is defined as a secret name or word; or a code name or code word. We often think of governments and militaries using cryptonyms to refer to secret projects or […]
Continue reading »This month I’m developing a manifesto based on unusual words that delight me and represent my interests as I blog through the alphabet in the A-to-Z challenge. Today we’re visiting the letter B. B is for bibelot. n: “a small object of curiosity, beauty, or rarity; a trinket; a beautiful bauble; a book of unusually small […]
Continue reading »J is for jazzetry April is a really packed month and that feels especially appropriate to me. As though the slowly-waking Spring energy starts gathering momentum and boom, suddenly it bursts through the door demanding attention, tossing out invitations, encouraging brain synapses to make new connections, and soliciting riffing on all manner of things. April […]
Continue reading »I is for ichnogram (noun) An imprint of the soles of the feet, taken standing; footprint. I’m fascinated by hands and have quite a collection of hand images. But lately feet have been vying for my attention as well. In fact I’m considering doing a zine about them. And so it should come as no […]
Continue reading »H is for hardihood. Hardihood is boldness, daring, courage. Isn’t that a fabulous word? And it’s something I’ve been thinking about quite a bit lately. I’ve been watching friends and clients demonstrating hardihood and it delights me beyond measure. And I have some things I want to create and accomplish that require me dipping into […]
Continue reading »G is for Goldfinch. It so happens that April 8th is Draw a Bird Day. You can read more about it here. And here’s my bird for the day: Of course I wasn’t going for anything realistic, but Fool immediately saw gold and steered the investigation to Goldfinch. I don’t really start seeing goldfinch with […]
Continue reading »F is for Floriography Floriography is the art of communicating through flowers. Although originating much earlier, this language of flowers became popular during the Victorian era when forthright communication, particularly around feelings became taboo. Flowers became a way to send messages. Taking my time walking the path with Fool, I can’t help but notice the […]
Continue reading »E is for emicate. Emicate is an obscure, mostly-out-of-use word that means to sparkle, or alternately, to spring forth. I prefer sparkle, but if we contemplate for a moment it’s easy to understand sparkle as something that springs forth. I find I like the idea of sparkle even better when I consider this springing forth […]
Continue reading »D is for Dianthus, commonly known as the flower Pink. Which is doubly perfect because we not only get to celebrate the flower, but also the fact that today’s full moon is known as the Full Pink Moon. I think Fool would approve of such merriment. While I like imagining the moon slipping on a […]
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