Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt Thrill & Tiredness Yesterday I felt a bit of a thrill—a sudden wave of keen emotion or excitement—while cutting out and arranging all of the photographs I’ve created and chosen to post this month. I’ve felt a tiredness—a stateContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 24: Thrill and Tiredness”
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Poetry Month Challenges Day 23: Fear and Control
Fear and Control I added this week’s contradictory nouns to my chart of fear and control. It now looks like this: Then I printed and cut out all of the images I have posted so far this month and used the chart to place them into a collage: Today’s Images For today’s images I continuedContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 23: Fear and Control”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 22: Sadness and Satisfaction
Sadness & Satisfaction Satisfaction has two different meanings. It can be a feeling of contentment, fulfillment, or gratification. But it can also be the opportunity to redress or right a wrong; or compensation for a wrong or injury. In this way satisfaction is tied to revenge. Its relationship to sadness—distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment;Continue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 22: Sadness and Satisfaction”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 21: Reality and Romance
Reality & Romance The question of defining reality continues to be one of the main questions of philosophy, psychology, and every belief system. I’ve explored it while reading Calvino’s memos in my post Visibility: Fantasy in Reality, and Reality in Fantasy and in contrast to dreams in my post #SoCS: The Reality of a Half-full PlateContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 21: Reality and Romance”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 20: Quirk and Quality
I’m really glad I read the A to Z Challenge post about Querying first thing this morning, because for some reason I had skipped over Q in my mind and was planning to write my R post today. Quirk & Quality A quirk is a peculiarity of action, behavior, or personality; mannerism. Peculiarity is aContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 20: Quirk and Quality”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 19: Pleasure and Patience
Pleasure & Patience Pleasure is the state or feeling of enjoyment or satisfaction derived from what is to one’s liking; gratification; delight. In Civilization and Its Discontents Freud says that “the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle.” The pleasure principle is Freud’s belief that man’s activity develops toward the absenceContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 19: Pleasure and Patience”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 18: Opportunity and Opportunism
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Abraham Lincoln Opportunity & Opportunism An opportunity is a situation or conditionContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 18: Opportunity and Opportunism”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 17: Need and Nonsense
“I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.” Dr. Seuss “The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” Carl Jung Need & Nonsense Need is an urgent want, as of something essential or indispensable; a lack of something wanted or deemed necessary; a requirement, necessary duty, orContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 17: Need and Nonsense”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 16: The XY Axis of Fear and Control
Fear and Control On April 2nd, I talked about my idea that all abstractions are on a continuum of fear between the extremes of fight or flight. I created a chart with a horizontal line with homeostasis and harmony at its center to chart all of the contradictory abstract nouns I’m studying this month. Here’sContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 16: The XY Axis of Fear and Control”
Poetry Month Challenges Day 15: Mercy and Misery
Mercy & Misery Misery is a condition or circumstance of distress or suffering; wretchedness; great mental or emotional distress; extreme unhappiness caused by need. Mercy is an act of kindness, compassion, or favor; compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one’s power; pity, or benevolence. To forbear isContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 15: Mercy and Misery”
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