Looked up the word “stet” today (the edit mark for “undo”) and found a fun grammar blog: http://gtotd.blogspot.com/.
And it’s not just grammar — it has versions of our “Word of the Day”. I especially liked:
an·ti·no·mi·an –noun [Origin: 1635–45; < style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=anti-" target="_blank">anti- + nómos law) + -ian]
1. a person who maintains that Christians are [...]
Archive for April, 2008
A Grammar Blog
Posted in Literary, tagged antinomian, grammar, stet on 29 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
We won!
Posted in Fashion, Personal on 29 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just bought a black pearl pendant for $0.01 (and $11 shipping), and Becky won her cameo!
Cameos and Poison Rings
Posted in Fashion, Food and Wine, Personal, tagged black cameos, international shipping, poison rings on 27 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Becky placed her first Ebay bid tonight, on a beautiful cameo pendant. I purchased black cameo earrings (from Greece). Then we got distracted by that necessary accessory of the middle ages: the poison ring.
Oh yes, we need a ring that takes up most of a phalange to hide its oh-so-secret compartment. When we clicked on [...]
Skin
Posted in Personal, Poetry, tagged joanna newsom, skin on 27 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Scrape your knee; it is only skin
Makes the sound of violins
My skin is a dark, tightly woven fence. Stretched over the points of my skeleton, it pulls thin when I bend toward you. My skin is the outer limit, the edge of my little world. The last star in the universe and [...]
Copywork
Posted in Literary, Personal, Poetry, Teaching, tagged isaiah, t.s. eliot on 27 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I sat at the kitchen table with a pencil, lined paper and my Bible. The project: copy out Isaiah 40.
I have discovered that I memorize most precisely via the physical act of copying the text. Preliminary memorization (reading and repeating) is followed by an attempt to copy as much as possible from memory–looking [...]
Viva la Revolucion!
Posted in Personal on 25 April 2008 | 1 Comment »
After 23 years as a self-professed nerd, I have decided it’s time to care about Fashion and to “define my personal style.”
It all began when I realized I’ve been working out about 4 days a week for the past couple months and lost a total of 5 pounds. I tone up nicely, but I will [...]
Found poetry
Posted in Literary, Poetry, tagged Annie Dillard, found poetry, Marianne Moore, t.s. eliot on 23 April 2008 | 4 Comments »
I opened a journal sometime in the last year pondering my use of quotations as markers in my life:
It is sometimes disturbing to me that I attempt to express myself in a shattered collection of out-of-context bits of language from others’ tongues. What am I but a pieced together quilt of the voices of [...]
Two [fragments] for today
Posted in Personal, Poetry on 22 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am most immoderately married:
The Lord God has taken my heaviness away;
I have merged, like the bird, with the bright air,
And my thought flies to the place by the bo-tree.
Being, not doing is my first joy
(from “The Abyss” by T. Roethke)
Come kiss me
I saw your fault before you showed it me
(John Berryman)
Dear Mr. Eliot:
Posted in Poetry on 22 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I hereby take issue with image #3:
“the past as dust” (filed under “p”).
Unless, by “dust” you intend to reference
the dust storms of the 1930s–
the blinding, choking substance of particles en mass,
that blanketed, strangled the Midwest states.
Dust to be sawed into blocks,
hauled away by tractors
straining as at the roots of an ancient oak.
This (not light particles
suspended [...]
Hehehe
Posted in Uncategorized on 18 April 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is one of my favorite brain-break sites. This was particularly humorous:
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