Pics from around the neighborhood.
Take a picture a day for an entire year. Apparently, this is a thing. Consider it a challenge, a journal, or a journey (I prefer journey). Take a picture a day and post it to your blog. Here are some reasons why you should try it, too.
I’ve been studying French on and off for about a year. My interest in the language began when I started reading classical French novels by Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Stendhal, and others. I’m also a budding armchair historian of the French Revolution. In 2018/19, I spent Christmas and the New Year in Paris. Bonne Année !!
French is a beautiful, musical, romantic language, … and I’m keen on learning it.
For the next 100 days (all of Spring 2022), I’ll focus daily on a French word and use it in sentences. The results of my efforts will surely be hilarious, peppered with errors, and unequivocally bad French … but you gotta have the freedom to fail.
So, without further ado … let’s learn French! Allons-y!
MOT DU JOUR
cochon (masculine noun) : pig
MES PHRASES RIDICULES
Le fermier élève des moutons et des cochons. (The farmer raises sheep and pigs.)
Vous pouvez décider mettre votre cochon d’Inde dans le jardin ou sur le balcon quand il fait beau, au printemps ou en été. (You can decide to put your guinea pig in the garden our on the balcony when the weather is nice, in spring or summer.)
Paul ne doit pas manger comme un cochon. (Paul should not eat like a pig.)
I’ve been studying French on and off for about a year. My interest in the language began when I started reading classical French novels by Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Stendhal, and others. I’m also a budding armchair historian of the French Revolution. In 2018/19, I spent Christmas and the New Year in Paris. Bonne Année !!
French is a beautiful, musical, romantic language, … and I’m keen on learning it.
For the next 100 days (all of Spring 2022), I’ll focus daily on a French word and use it in sentences. The results of my efforts will surely be hilarious, peppered with errors, and unequivocally bad French … but you gotta have the freedom to fail.
So, without further ado … let’s learn French! Allons-y!
MOT DU JOUR
pouvoir (auxiliary/impersonal/transitive verb) : to be able to
MES PHRASES RIDICULES
Paul pourrait nager s’il prenait des cours. (Paul could swim if he took lessons.)
La politique pourrait devenir l’art du possible. (Politics coud become the art of the possible.)
Paul pourrait l’acheter s’il n’était pas pauvre. (Paul could buy it if he was not poor.)
I’ve been studying French on and off for about a year. My interest in the language began when I started reading classical French novels by Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Stendhal, and others. I’m also a budding armchair historian of the French Revolution. In 2018/19, I spent Christmas and the New Year in Paris. Bonne Année !!
French is a beautiful, musical, romantic language, … and I’m keen on learning it.
For the next 100 days (all of Spring 2022), I’ll focus daily on a French word and use it in sentences. The results of my efforts will surely be hilarious, peppered with errors, and unequivocally bad French … but you gotta have the freedom to fail.
So, without further ado … let’s learn French! Allons-y!
MOT DU JOUR
chameau chameaux (masculine noun) : camel
MES PHRASES RIDICULES
Il a traversé le désert à dos de chameau. (He rode through the desert on a camel.)
Paul monterait à dos de chameau s’il savait comment. (Paul would ride a camel if he know how.)
Claire et son chameau sont les meilleurs amis du monde. (Claire and her camel are the best of friends.)
I’ve been studying French on and off for about a year. My interest in the language began when I started reading classical French novels by Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Stendhal, and others. I’m also a budding armchair historian of the French Revolution. In 2018/19, I spent Christmas and the New Year in Paris. Bonne Année !!
French is a beautiful, musical, romantic language, … and I’m keen on learning it.
For the next 100 days (all of Spring 2022), I’ll focus daily on a French word and use it in sentences. The results of my efforts will surely be hilarious, peppered with errors, and unequivocally bad French … but you gotta have the freedom to fail.
So, without further ado … let’s learn French! Allons-y!
MOT DU JOUR
obtenir (transitive verb) : to get; to obtain
MES PHRASES RIDICULES
Le fils de Paul a obtenu un vélo pour Noël. (Paul’s son got a a bicycle for Christmas.)
Paul aimerait acheter une voiture s’il obtient une promotion. (Paul would like to buy a car if he gets a promotion.)
Claire avait besoin de ce travail, et elle l’a obtenu. (Claire needed this job, and she obtained it)
I’ve been studying French on and off for about a year. My interest in the language began when I started reading classical French novels by Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Stendhal, and others. I’m also a budding armchair historian of the French Revolution. In 2018/19, I spent Christmas and the New Year in Paris. Bonne Année !!
French is a beautiful, musical, romantic language, … and I’m keen on learning it.
For the next 100 days (all of Spring 2022), I’ll focus daily on a French word and use it in sentences. The results of my efforts will surely be hilarious, peppered with errors, and unequivocally bad French … but you gotta have the freedom to fail.
So, without further ado … let’s learn French! Allons-y!
MOT DU JOUR
mouton (masculine noun) : sheep; sheepskin; mutton
MES PHRASES RIDICULES
J’ai toujours été le mouton noir de ma famille. (I have always been the black sheep of the family.)
Claire a vu un troupeau de moutons hier. (Claire saw a flock of sheep yesterday.)
Paul était éleveur de moutons avant de venir à Paris. (Paul was a sheep farmer before coming to Paris.)
I’ve been studying French on and off for about a year. My interest in the language began when I started reading classical French novels by Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Stendhal, and others. I’m also a budding armchair historian of the French Revolution. In 2018/19, I spent Christmas and the New Year in Paris. Bonne Année !!
French is a beautiful, musical, romantic language, … and I’m keen on learning it.
For the next 100 days (all of Spring 2022), I’ll focus daily on a French word and use it in sentences. The results of my efforts will surely be hilarious, peppered with errors, and unequivocally bad French … but you gotta have the freedom to fail.
So, without further ado … let’s learn French! Allons-y!
MOT DU JOUR
attendre (transitive and intransitive verb) : to wait; to wait for something
MES PHRASES RIDICULES
Le train est en retard. Je l’attends. (The train is late. I wait for it. )
Il attendrait le train s’il était en retard. (He would wait for the train if it was late.)
Claire attendrait Paul s’il lui téléphonait. (Claire would wait for Paul if he called her.)
Claire aurait attendu Paul s’il lui avait téléphoné. (Claire would have waited for Paul if he had called her.)
We sing to you, Mighty Zeus,
At your touch, the pillars of our temple crumble.
You cleave the forests in two and shatter the black thundering skies.
Our every action is weighed upon Themis’ golden scales.
Our every desire—
whether we were blinded by ambition,
or moved to pity,
is unearthed.
Every thought-grain is measured.
The 100 Day Project is a creativity excavation. It’s about unearthing dormant or unrealized creativity by committing to a daily practice everyday for 100 days.
Creativity is a skill. The more we practice, the more skilled we become. Practice takes time. Practice takes commitment. Practice is a radical act in this speeded up world. Through practice, we develop a creative habit. Through habit, we reconnect with and know ourselves again as a creative being.
I started this, my fourth, 100 Day Project on March 20th, 2022. My project is to write at least one first-draft stanza inspired by a poem, a quote, an idea, a painting—anything (or nothing at all) and to post a photograph that I took this spring.
Enjoy!
So must one travel,
A trail upon the pebbles and sand,
Hidden in shadows of high, desolate cliffs,
The jagged rock eras old, wise and unforgiving,
Sparing not a single man’s life out of pity–
Pebbles and sand, and a gusty squall–
My cheeks flushed with salt and air,
My eyes blinded, far-seeing, pierce the far horizon
and plumb the piled fathoms
and all their deep mysteries.
The 100 Day Project is a creativity excavation. It’s about unearthing dormant or unrealized creativity by committing to a daily practice everyday for 100 days.
Creativity is a skill. The more we practice, the more skilled we become. Practice takes time. Practice takes commitment. Practice is a radical act in this speeded up world. Through practice, we develop a creative habit. Through habit, we reconnect with and know ourselves again as a creative being.
I started this, my fourth, 100 Day Project on March 20th, 2022. My project is to write at least one first-draft stanza inspired by a poem, a quote, an idea, a painting—anything (or nothing at all) and to post a photograph that I took this spring.
Enjoy!
I’ve been studying French on and off for about a year. My interest in the language began when I started reading classical French novels by Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Stendhal, and others. I’m also a budding armchair historian of the French Revolution. In 2018/19, I spent Christmas and the New Year in Paris. Bonne Année !!
French is a beautiful, musical, romantic language, … and I’m keen on learning it.
For the next 100 days (all of Spring 2022), I’ll focus daily on a French word and use it in sentences. The results of my efforts will surely be hilarious, peppered with errors, and unequivocally bad French … but you gotta have the freedom to fail.
So, without further ado … let’s learn French! Allons-y!
MOT DU JOUR
besoin (masculine noun) : need
MES PHRASES RIDICULES
J’ai besoin de manger. (I need to eat.)
Claire a besoin d’y réfléchir. (Claire needs to think about it.)
Depuis qu’il a perdu son travail, il est dans le besoin. (Since he has lost his job, he is in need.)