Goal A goal can be a concrete noun, if you’re playing soccer (football in most of the world), but as an abstract noun–“the result or achievement toward which effort is directed”–it is a squirrelly concept. Since the beginning of the year, I have read a pile of books on the concept of goal setting, creatingContinue reading “Day Eight: They Never Tell You Goals Are Squirrelly”
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Day Seven: An Aubade to An Abundance of Failures
Failure Today’s post on Blogging from A to Z has some quotes to help us focus on a successful future. Two of them are about failure: “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” –Winston Churchill “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really:Continue reading “Day Seven: An Aubade to An Abundance of Failures”
Day Six: Expressions of Things That Go Bump in the Night
Expression From dictionary.com I learned that “expression” is about transformation, manifestation, and communication. 1. the act or an instance of transforming ideas into words 2. a manifestation of an emotion, feeling, etc, without words 3. communication of emotion through music, painting, etc. Visually, that leaves the possibilities wide open. I could express absolutely anything. ButContinue reading “Day Six: Expressions of Things That Go Bump in the Night”
Day Five: Weaving the Allotted Lengths
Destiny Destiny is a fascinating concept: “a predetermined course of events often held to be an irresistible power or agency” (Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary tenth edition). It is human nature to want to have a purpose, to search and strive to find the why of existence. But why try if the course of events isContinue reading “Day Five: Weaving the Allotted Lengths”
Day Four: Reexamining Comfort
It’s storming today, so I put some comfort on it. Thinking about the definition of comfort as relief in affliction, I used blue dots for prickling sorrows, and contrasting orange as its consolation. I’m glad I had an umbrella handy. Comfort When I think of comfort, I think of physical calm, lack of irritation, thingsContinue reading “Day Four: Reexamining Comfort”
Day Three: The Cleaving Smell of Beauty’s Ambition
This is the first Sunday of the of the month, and there is no A to Z on Sundays, so today’s photo-challenge is a little different. I’ll be using the photos I took for Ambition and Beauty to create visual poems guided by a homograph. Cleave Cleave is an enticing word because it is bothContinue reading “Day Three: The Cleaving Smell of Beauty’s Ambition”
Day Two: Beauty Tips
Beauty Dictionary.com defines beauty as “the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest).” Notice that it saysContinue reading “Day Two: Beauty Tips”
Day One: Foolish Ambition
Happy April Fool’s Day. I’m not a fan of pranks or practical jokes, so this in not one of my favorite days, but today being the beginning of a poetic journey, I thought of the Fool of the tarot: head in the clouds, not looking where he is going, about to step off a cliff.Continue reading “Day One: Foolish Ambition”
Experience Writing 