the result

"People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher—a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don’t know precisely when he said this, but Fitzgerald passed away from here in 1940. I can’t imagine what he might say about our leaders and our society now…

quote of the day

“What other people think of you is none of your business.” -- anonymous

word OF THE DAY # 4 ?

I LOST TRACK… OOPS short word today

EMISSARY (35)

: representative, usually of a government persuasion.

Your Age in Days

Date: 11 - 5 - 1980 (MM-DD-YYYY).

You are 11397 days old.
That's 1628 weeks and 1 days.
Which is 31 years and 75 days, including 7 leap years*.
(= 31 years, 10 weeks and 5 days.)
In other words, that's 375 months.
Therefore, you are 31.2 years old.

You were born on a Wednesday, your last birthday was a Saturday
and your next one will be on a Monday.

That’s pretty scary….

Quote Of The Day

"Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain."

-Nicholson Baker

I am still pondering the meaning and affects of this quote…

Word of the day # 3

obstreperous (140)

Encarta : noisy and aggressively boisterous

Read this word in the wee hours of the morning, in a book by Emma Bull – an author that I definitely think I am going to appreciate.

To quote "Come along, my obstreperous primrose. Everything will be improved by a night's sleep and a day's reflection."

- The Phouka, Emma Bull, The War of the Oaks

I had a mild idea what it might mean, but had to find out for sure this morning.

unfinished... ?

What caused me to bend, and bow to whims?

What brought me to the point of hiding, losing?

He did not ask me to change these things.

He even voiced that which he thought more likely.

Yet he was so sure, so unlikely to alter…

Word of the day #2

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Ingrained (62 +)

Worked in deep. Yeah that'll stick with ya.

word of the day #1

melancholy (60)

Encarta Dictionary defines melancholy as "pensive sadness-a thoughtful or gentle sadness" . This humor is often used in references to artists and others of a creative persuasion to try to define they're sometimes unreferrenceable mood.