It’s officially been a complete month of blogging. I hope those who frequent this page haven’t felt that it has been “too much.” I worried about that to tell you the truth. I don’t know as if I’ll be able to blog every day after this, but I will try. After a friend of mine had managed to do it for a week, I thought that I would try to do the same thing; only it turned out to be a bit longer…
The only thing I want to share tonight (as it is getting late and I have to be up early) is something a friend of mine said to me tonight:
sundry
I just love the way that word seems to flow off one’s tongue, like a river of melted sound…what an amazing word! My friend used it in a sentence which went something like, “Students like it when their teachers come to stuff like this, to all and sundry.”
As I left the skating rink tonight that word kept bobbing around in my head, like a wasp buzzing against the panes of my thoughts. No matter how hard I tried to push it away, the word just kept coming back to me. I think it’s one of my new favorites.
Well, the hour is late and I must get some sleep. So, without further ado: goodnight my dear friends, to all and sundry.
7 comments:
The phrase was "various and sundry" as in various and sundry things. It's an adj. that means miscellaneous. (I just now looked it up.)It was hard to hear in that skating rink- so close enough.
I never thought about it until it struck you, but it is a cool word.
I like the phrases you used, "like a river of melted sound" and "like a wasp buzzing around the panes of my thoughts". So poetic! No wonder you notice the way words sound.
my personal favorite is tawdry...
You have done a good job keeping your blog up to date. I have been trying to do the same. Well I hope you can keep it up.
You must call me today or tomorrow! I really enjoy reading your blog and I would be left without anything to do if you stopped writing. So, keep writing or else!!!
Have you seen August Rush --- you seem to hear words and start to compose writing in your mind, the same way he hears sounds and composes music in his mind.
The way you chose to explain the word sundry in your mind 'like a wasp buzzing against the panes of my thoughts' is absolutely magical...so much more poetic than I would have chosen...which probably would have sounded something like, 'the word kept bobbing around in my thoughts, like a body rising to the surface after a river is dredged'. Wow...some people have all the talent when it comes to writing!
Sundry...good word. I will have to use that in a sentence this week!
Nettle - Ah, leave it to me to mess it all up and ruin everything...Curses!
Jacs - I love that word!
Shay-Shay - I'm going to try to keep going, but some days it's a challenge to be honest.
Emmy - I'll try to work my magic.
LoS - Where did you ever find that line, "the word kept bobbing around in my thoughts, like a body rising to the surface after a river is dredged"? It's absolutely BRILLIANT!!
Jewels - Yeah, confuse those kids like there's no tomorrow!
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