Sewing

dahearn wrote : Yes, I'm using a sewing machine. Funny, we're both sewing. I read in the Artist Way that it's good to mend clothing or sew something, it's a physical way of creating and mending our lives. Interesting concept.

Adaptors and Adaptations

Abridged :  Simplified

FUN WITH CLASSIFICATIONS OF WORDS

FUN WITH CLASSIFICATIONS OF WORDS
SEE Lexical category from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parts_of_speech

The classification of words into lexical categories is found from the earliest moments in the history of linguistics. Plato wrote in the Cratylus dialog that "... sentences are, I conceive, a combination of verbs and nouns. Another class, "conjunctions" (covering conjunctions, pronouns, and the article), was later added by Aristotle. Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection.

Each part of speech explains not what the word is, but how the word is used. Many words can be a noun in one sentence and a verb or adjective in another.

The syntactic role of the verb is to serve as an action word, an occurrence word (decompose, glitter), or a state of being (exist, stand). (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb)

The syntactic role of the adjective is to modify a noun or pronoun. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective)

Metaphoric Poetry

My Life in Metaphors

The sweet Charlie Brown tree
With few white pom poms
Now browned

Just outside my bedroom window
BROKEN

The window 

that opens to the street
EXPOSED 

Shades pulled down
CONFINING

A stolen line from a Dustyvsong

"I ponder my resistance" 

The mental effort
A lesson to be learned
Consider  the metaphor
PAINFUL

I hear Ellen Curley
She calls out my name
Across the rivers
The East River
The Hudson
She beckons me

"Ann Marie ! Ann Marie !"
Opened palms
She claps them
Imploring,
"Close the book!!!" 

Beauty in the eyes of the beholder

I was on the beach collecting rocks, finding the most prettiest rocks to add to my collection. The friend walking beside me reached down to pick up a rock and inspected it just before he handed it to me. It was such an ugly rock! With disdain, I pointed out the ugliness of that rock. Childishly, not considering that I should insult a dear friend. I was merely criticizing a lacking skill at rock collecting! I had no desire to carry this heavy stone. There were several more worthy stones to find along the way. As if to assert that he selected that particular rock with specific intention, he declared, "put it next to the beautiful ones and the beautiful ones will look even more beautiful"

Fly a Kite

Don't Fence Me In

The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him was the real founder of society. Humanity would have been spared infinite crimes, wars, homicides, murders, if only someone had ripped up the fences or filled in the ditches and said, "Do not listen to this pretender!"

From Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men, Published 1755, Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

SEE Modern History Sourcebook: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Discourse on Inequality, No 2