Category: Ten Things of Thankful,
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11 Oct: Ten Things of Thankful
Thankful that my bruised elbow is healing — I can finally bend it enough for my hand to touch my shoulder. Grateful that my Covid and winter flu jabs didn’t sting like wasps. Thankful for the cosy warmth of woolly jumpers again. For bedlinen dried outside in the sunshine — it smells as sweet as…
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5 Oct: Ten Things of Thankful
I am still away in the Rhône Alps, so photos are a minimum. I might make a post for them after I’m back home. You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter https://fresh.inlinkz.com/js/widget/load.js?id=c0efdbe6b4add43dd7ef Welcome to TToT (Ten Things of Thankful) blog hop! Join bloggers from all over the world as we…
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26.9: Ten Things of Thankful
I am thankful for the people I’ve loved and who’ve allowed me to be part of their lives. To Carolyn: rest in peace. To Eigil: Always. The flowers in my garden are nearly finished, gone to seed, and shall return in the spring. Until then, I have A.I. to fill my heart with colour. Grapes…
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20 Sept: Ten Things of Thankful
In no particular order: One of my dearest friends had TAVR surgery (heart valve replacement) — all went well, and she’s already back home. Thankful that it wasn’t our underground sewer drainage pipe that collapsed. My poor neighbour across the street. Diggers to arrive tomorrow to start work making a trench for access. Thankful that…
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12 Sept: Ten Things of Thankful
In no particular order: 1. I am thankful that the English language has progressed beyond St Patrick’s 5th century Tale of a Nation (although I adore the word “docus” – a silly person): “Eh man, but ye maun be an unco docus to mistak the yowlin’ o’ a wheen dougs for the squeelin’ o’ ghaists…
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5 Sept: Ten Things of Thankful (soundtracked)
In no particular order: 1. The clouds could no longer hold the rain. It fell in curtains. Wind’s fingerprint on everything. Sunflowers abandoned to the shadows; petals melted in the rain. I’m thankful for rain in the midst of a drought. The rain barrels are full to overflowing again! 2. Planning an 8-day trip to…
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30 Aug: Ten Things of Thankful
This week’s Ten Things is heavy on the subject of food, thereby explaining the archaic word ‘edacious’ below. 1. I am thankful for onomatopœic words that fly off my tongue: FLIBBERTY-GIBBET — a very talkative person; Etymology: an onomatopœic. Used by John Heywood in 1546, from All Proverbs in the English Language. However — this week’s word…
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21 Aug: Ten Things of Thankful
In no particular order: 1.I am thankful when I discover a new word, particular if it’s archaic or obsolete. It’s like throwing the joker card into a sentence. Like Circumforaneous — to wander from place to place, like Don Quixote’s horse is on another circumforaneous path. (1650 obsolete.) 2. Thankful for these grapes. Ripening nicely. Sweeter than I recall for…
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13 Aug: Ten Things of Thankful
In no particular order: #10 – it’s that time again I am thankful that I managed to walk all the way to the top of this extremely steep hill at Hammerhus (from which the view across the Baltic Sea was amazing) because … #10.1 – a bit of sun …. as you’ll notice, it’s really,…
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3 Aug: A Slightly Different Ten Things of Thankful
—in the voice of the wind, the waves, and old friends’ waving hands I am away, and I will return when the wind changes I. The Lighthouse Sings:Red and white, I stand crooked as an old man’s spine,scribbling your name in light over the water. II. Go! Go! The horizon is a doorstep,not a wall.…
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