Words we love, but sometimes forget to use, or at least forget to use with sincerity:
ardent
estimable
graceful spirit
luminous
spark
imbued
warrant
wretched
Which will you use today?
Victory
Victory is a hard-won state of mind combined with a change of reality.
Beauty
Beauty is drawn with the clean lines of honesty.
Silence In A Book
I am currently reading Amazing Grace by Kathleen Norris. Thanks to my dear friend who passed this book to me over the weekend. If you have a good book, pass it to your friend today. You know you’ve been thinking of it.
Here’s my favorite line so far from this blessing:
“Silence reminds me to take my soul with me wherever I go.”
This is page 17; I am full of hope for the encouragement I will find in the rest of this book.
The Non-Saying
In the midst of practicing our Irish accents, we came up with a saying that is surely not Irish:
“Why don’t ye stand behind me and say it backward–maybe then I’ll understand ye?”
It was the only way we could really get it going. That, and reading the story of Finn MacCool, which was the true beginning of our delve.
Words I Made Up This Week
take-off-able
untaken
ingrammatical
community-aly
breakfast-ness
womanity
The Key To A Good…
Predicate A: Chocolate chip cookies and homemade pasta sauce require timing.
Predicate B: Making chocolate chip cookies and homemade pasta sauce make my days first-rate.
Therefore, a good life requires timing.
Application: Pay attention and make the right move at the right time.
As an aside, I recommend removing chocolate cookies from a 375 degree Fahrenheit oven at precisely at the 10-minute mark. Let the cookies finish baking on the pan for about 1 minute, then remove them to a cooling rack. Pasta sauce should be made in three 20-minute stages. The base aromatics, the substance tomatoes, the additive spices.
Surprises
A modern surprise at the opera house in Rome. I hope to be surprised in a way as lovely as this on Halloween. All I can hope for is a nice surprise.
Unsticking
When feeling stuck, muddled, or otherwise blasaise, give yourself a good old round of organization. Write down your thoughts on 3 by 5 cards and tape them, staple them, thumbtack them, or glue them to your wall, your bathroom mirror, or appropriately, a piece of cork board. You will soon be unstuck by the leverage of a plan pulling you into action.
Naphtalia 
