I was thinking about this because my dog looks like a palimpsest, with dark skin spots barely showing through his short white coat, as if someone had taken a dalmation and imperfectly scraped the spots off.
__WORD__, @Dan_Lyons, we’re centered on a good WORD for today. Can or cannot relate to the word above. A word that makes you feel good, or that you like.
Snownado. Not sure if it’s a real word, but I saw one drift across the highway in front of me a little while ago. A well defined column of snow, kind of like a dust devil. Maybe a Snow Devil?
Finally, after over 6 weeks of not a drop after a Dec. teaser of several big gully washers, parched Northern California is going to get a few day ( whoopee ) of RAIN!
( Gah…I just pulled a freaking TICK off the back of my leg, probably from last night walking around in the tall grass here with the ducks. Gross, gross, gross…help me! haha )
Thanks! Although I don’t miss the diseases I miss when medicine involved such vocabulary as “sanguine” and “miasma”. I’m thankful we still have viscera.
Sisyphean. I actaully manage to use this in normal conversation a few times a year. It’s one of those words that means just exactly the right thing, but hardly anyone knows it so you end up losing it’s succintness as you define it in less economic terms.
peace.
It has been an anthem, motto, argument, threat, and so many things; but in it’s true context, original definition, peace. The word itself sounds different when you really… really mean it.