My daughter on the beach two nights ago, playing with the slow sand.
Slow sand
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Maxfield Parish clouds IV
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Z is for zest
Z is for zest. What do you feel zest for?
The photograph is our small town synchronized swim team in 2007 at the Blossom, the last meet of the season that we went to that year. Our girls posed outside where it was very chilly, and all of the exited parents snapped photographs. Zest on both sides for the team and for swimming!
Webster 1913 here
Zest (?), n. F. zeste, probably fr. L. schistos split, cleft, divided, Gr. , from to split, cleave. Cf. Schism.
1. A piece of orange or lemon peel, or the aromatic oil which may be squeezed from such peel, used to give flavor to liquor, etc.
2. Hence, something that gives or enhances a pleasant taste, or the taste itself; an appetizer; also, keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.
Almighty Vanity! to thee they owe Their zest of pleasure, and their balm of woe. Young.
Liberality of disposition and conduct gives the highest zest and relish to social intercourse. Gogan.
3. The woody, thick skin inclosing the kernel of a walnut. Obs.
from Dictionary.com here:
noun
1. keen relish; hearty enjoyment; gusto.
2. an agreeable or piquant flavor imparted to something.
3. anything added to impart flavor, enhance one’s appreciation, etc.
4. piquancy; interest; charm.
5. liveliness or energy; animating spirit.
6. the peel, especially the thin outer peel, of a citrus fruit used for flavoring:
lemon zest.
verb (used with object)
7.to give zest, relish, or piquancy to.
Zest for life, zest for writing, zest for all of the A to Z feelings that I’ve written about in the 7 sins and friends and all of the feelings that I haven’t written about. They are all part of being human! And now: zest for breakfast, I’m hungry!
Hooray for finishing and hooray for everyone who participated whether they finished or not!
X is for xenophobic
X is for xenophobic.Have you ever felt xenophobic?
How would I know if I were xenophobic since it is an unreasonable fear or hatred? How do we tell the difference between a reasonable fear or hatred and an unreasonable fear or hatred? Or is it only other people that can tell?
From dictionary.com:
xenophobic
adjective
1.
unreasonably fearful of or hating anyone or anything foreign or strange.
Origin of xenophobic
1905-1915
1905-1915;xenophob(ia) + -ic
Contemporary Examples
His most ardent and xenophobic political ally, Umberto Bossi, looks all but ready to bail.
Already Vulnerable, Berlusconi Weakened by Election Results Barbie Latza Nadeau May 30, 2011
The committee should avoid foreign ownership questions which will make them sound parochial or xenophobic or both. 9 Questions for Rupert Geoffrey Robertson July 17, 2011
The article raises repeatedly reported statements by some opposition candidates that are “bigoted and xenophobic.” Will Scandalous Videos Topple Georgia’s President? A Rebuttal Tedo Japaridze September 23, 2012
We are almost certainly hard coded to be xenophobic, which is why hunter gatherers often have such extraordinary homicide rates. Racism Isn’t Natural. But I Suspect Xenophobia Is. Megan McArdle October 17, 2012
“Unfortunately these kinds of xenophobic attacks have happened in Libya before,” says Bouckaert. Libya’s Hysteria Over African Mercenaries Babak Dehghanpisheh March 5, 2011
Oh, and their attitudes towards Arabs and promised land are even more insular and xenophobic than most settlers. How Yair Lapid’s Gambit Ends Bernard Avishai March 6, 2013
I started hearing rumors about xenophobic attacks in early April. Will the World Cup Start a Riot? Gretchen L. Wilson June 9, 2010
Meanwhile, politicians like Tom Tancredo led an ugly race to the bottom to see who could be most xenophobic. Bush Was Right Mark McKinnon April 27, 2010
Word Origin and History for xenophobic
adj.
1912, from xenophobia + -ic.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
It seems that xenophobic is something we say about other people. Not very nice of us, and judgemental.
Batman at the beach. A younger child at a party, dressing as Batman, a powerful archetype.
And he catches one of the other children.
She escapes.
Batman is on his own.
He starts to enjoy the beach.
Batman wading.
By the end of the party, he takes off the hot costume. He was comfortable enough that he didn’t have to be Batman any more.
I took the pictures in 2006.
O is for open
O for open.
What does feeling open mean to you?
Dictionary.com lists 42 adjective meanings, including:
34. not constipated, as the bowels.
That one made me giggle, but I am thinking of open as in open to other people and open to discussion and open to change. Walking outside and seeing birds and deer and the spring here exploding in flowers and small new leaves opens me. I get tired in clinic and by the end I am grumpy and think: no more people. Ick, people. But I love clinic and miss it when I have been off and sick. I missed hugs from my patients!
With 42 different adjective meanings, think about how amazing it is that we think we know what someone means when they use the word open…..
With all of the discussion generated by the US presidential election, I am also thinking about an open society. A friend said that we have to be open to discussion but we also have to listen to each other. And listen to feelings.
I think of Sweet Honey in the Rock singing “Would you harbor me?”
Would you harbor me?
Would I harbor you?
Would you harbor a Christian, a Muslim, a Jew
a heretic, convict or spy?
Would you harbor a run away woman, or child,
a poet, a prophet, a king?
The lyrics are here.
I took the photograph yesterday. I was trying to focus on my neighbor in the background, but I am open to seeing the grasses instead….
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K is for keen
K is for keen.
Welcome to 7 sins and friends, about feelings and whoa, am I behind! I am supposed to be up to N! Time to catch up and I am keen to do it! Hopefully my words will remain keen and entrancing.
1. finely sharpened, as an edge; so shaped as to cut or pierce substances readily: a keen razor.
2. sharp, piercing, or biting: a keen wind; keen satire.
3. characterized by strength and distinctness of perception; extremely sensitive or responsive: keen eyes; keen ears.
Now the folks in the picture are very keen as well: they are trying to win the Kinetic Sculpture Race. The winner gains the title of most mediocre. The kinetic sculptures are human powered and have to travel on land, by sea and through mud. The water here today is 50 degrees and is not much warmer at the end of the summer. They have to be keen to paddle through that water! Every sculpture has to carry a teddy bear and bribes for the judges and officials… it is kinetic madness….
4. having or showing great mental penetration or acumen: keen reasoning; a keen mind.
5. animated by or showing strong feeling or desire: keen competition.
6. intense, as feeling or desire: keen ambition; keen jealousy.
7. eager; interested; enthusiastic (often followed by about, on, etc., or an infinitive): She is really keen on going swimming.
8. Slang. great; wonderful; marvelous.
I am still keen for this contest, even with catch up due! What are you keen for? And of course it’s a keen contest with lots of keen contestants….
nurturance
I love you I will miss you I am going
I am going to the Beloved I am going quietly
I am saying goodbye and bless you and thank you
for letting me love you but now
I want to be loved too and I am going
somewhere there are people who will love me
nurture me care about me and I can nurture them back
I have spent so much time loving people who don’t
love me or perhaps they love me but in a small way
in a limited way in a very closed off way
and now I am breaking the boundaries again but not
with the people who want these boundaries
I am looking for people who want to love and be loved
like the sky like space like the deepest ocean rift
who are not afraid of passion and arguing and loving
who are not afraid to be afraid to be joyous to be sad
I am looking for people who are not afraid to be afraid
I took the photo in a friend’s woods yesterday.
Also published on everything2.com today.
Goddess at night
This is for photrablogger’s Mundane Monday Challenge #41 and this is the Haller Fountain, with Galatea, lit up last night. Beautiful and mysterious in the dark…
Crows
Sun this morning, after driving my son early to catch his bus back to college, through patches of fog with the tops of trees rising like islands, like tree orcas, like mysterious whales, out of the fog as the sun rose.
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