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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”

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”

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”

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”

“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”

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”

Luck & Loss Luck is a force that “seems to operate for good or ill in a person’s life.” It is good fortune; advantage or success, and considered as the result of chance. Fortune is chance personified, and “luck is a lady”. Chance is the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted,Continue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 14: Luck and Loss”

Kindness & Knowledge This is another fun pair to look at as contradictory. I looked at Kindness on the thirteenth last year. Kindness can be a state or quality, an act, a behavior, and/or a friendly feeling of benevolence. Benevolence is a desire to do good to others; goodwill; charitableness. And goodwill is a friendlyContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 13: Kindness and Knowledge”

Joy & Justice I’ve looked at both Joy (Day 12 last year) and Justice (and as a contradictory abstraction with Injustice; The Seriousness of Justice and Injustice) before, but what makes today exciting is that through the A to Z challenge I’m thinking about joy and justice as contradictory and how that could happen and whatContinue reading “Poetry Month Challenges Day 12: Joy and Justice”