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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

19- NEAT WORDS...And NAMES!

I DO remember being excited going to school at six and wanting to learn to read. Mrs. Vera Harouff had a huge alphabet printed above the blackboard. And she encouraged me, at six, to draw and color and cut straight lines with those fat scissors. This educator and sociologist hasn't stopped since, cutting straight lines with slim scissors, but I do enjoy, now, crossing those lines in life. I don't just cross the line, though, I erase it! When an art teacher in high school gave me that "f" on a drawing because a tree was colored purple, the next tree was painted paisley!

Neat words:
1) serendipity 2) ephiphany 3) aesthetics 4) altruism 5) canoodle 6) barn
7) mesmerize 8) patina 9) platonic 10) pissant 11) pusillanimous
12) soul-mate 13) Renaissance 14) "slychology" 15) spontaneity 16) visionary
17) aficionado 18) smattering 19) scarecrow 20) ruminations 21) deja vu 22) glockenspiel
23) Oh mi ga! 24) Sasquatch 25) ADVENTURES! 26) millionaire 27)IMAGINATION 28) covered bridge! 29) GAMBARU!

**(Got one?)

Neat Names:
a) Towanda! b) Wile E. Coyote c) JelliButton(tm) d) T. Boone Pickens e) Skelli(tm)
f) Icy Belle Liptrap g) Sacajawea h) billabong i) Walden Pond j) Bear Trap Farm
k) Nutmeg Quarter(tm) l) Squire! m) Grandma! n) Srag(tm) o) Peachy Pitman
p) MOXIE, do you have it? q) The Serpentine Bond(c) r) The Treehouse With A Basement(c)
q) S'mores r) Stingy Hollow s) ron rascal(tm) t) Miss Flossie Fern u) Caleb Barnstable
**(Know any?)

"Slychology" is an original squire word. Pissant IS in the dictionary. Towanda! comes from "Fried Green Tomatoes". Icy Bell Liptrap, I found in a phone book once, in the Valley, and did visit the neat octagenarian! Sacajawea WAS a Native American HEROINE! Bear Trap Farm is in the mts. of Augusta County, Va. and was built from scratch by two women with a vision--cabins and country meals. Nutmeg Quarter is an original term from the Town of BlueButtercups art creations. T. Boone Pickens?...he's real! "Srag" is the villian of the Town of BlueButtercups, with JelliButton as America's next national sweetheart. "Skelli" is there, too, and is "the world's oldest living unicorn!" and lives in a treehouse with a hottub on the 2nd floor. GAMBARU!--"Never give up...try again!" (Japanese). And Wile E. Coyote is my all-time hero-kinda-guy. Am absolutely so tired of that stupid, no-talking, scrawny, "BEEP-BEEP" bleeping desert bird picking on my pal Wile E. ALL of the time!!!

2 comments:

Rosemary said...

Neat words...Serendipity (most definitely agree with your choice!), scruff, lavender, moonshadow, kibitz, whatever, disingenuous, baseball, lollygag, pretentious, smitten, wilder beast, potty mouth, gawd, infectious, inept, menagerie, shangri-la.


Neat names...Rumplelstiltskin, Basil, Pollyanna, Moosebutt (a rural area in Maine, great for the outdoor enthusiasts...a fav of Henry Thoreau,) Lancelot, Bedrock (a simple place and time that calls my name, yabba dabba doo) Cinderella and last but not least, squire.

What about favorite sayings or quotes?
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince)

"I want the fairytale." Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman)

"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary." Ernest Hemingway

"I think I can, I think I can." (The Little Engine that could) and did!

"We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." Will Rogers

"Without men, what a boring world this would be." Rosemary Van Houten

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." The wizard from The Wizard of Oz.

"thesquiresview" said...

A WORDSMITH!...the squire requests more!