Year 2016 365 Photo Journey (July 23rd – July 31st) – More Miscellanea

Some new pics. Enjoy!

365 Photo Journey

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.

Year 2016 365 Photo Journey (July 15th – July 22nd) – Miscellanea

Some new pics. Enjoy!

365 Photo Journey

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.

Year 2016 365 Photo Journey (July 1st – July 15th) – Madison, Bloomington Edition

Some pics from my recent trips to Madison, WI and Bloomington, IN. Enjoy!

365 Photo Journey

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.

Word of the Day: Faustian

Faust
Faust

According to Merriam-Webster, Faustian means:

  • of, relating to, resembling, or suggesting Faust; especially, made or done for present gain without regard for future cost or consequences.

I might use the word Faustian in a sentence like this:

My Faustian attitude toward eating cinnamon rolls immediately before bedtime has caused me much restlessness, nightmares, and to wake in the morning with the uncomfortable feeling that a giant rock floats in my stomach soup.

Quotes From Rainer Maria Rilke (2)

Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke

Quoted in Lou Salome’s You Alone Are Real to Me:

I stand as if blind and in total darkness
because my look no longer finds its way to you.
The mad rush of days is
only a curtain, behind which you exist.
I stare up to see if it is not lifted,
the curtain behind which my life lives.
My life’s strength, my life’s necessity
and yet: my death.


Neither am I the two dark seas,
Nor the sinuous strait.
Neither can I drown in the current
Nor run aground on the high jagged cliffs.

I thought once that I was a navigator.
But the sextant moves eerily upright as if guided
By the hand of some phantom or ghost.

—Me, July 2016

Word of the Day: Inanition

words

According to Merriam-Webster, inanition means:

  • The quality or state of being empty.
  • The exhausted condition that results from lack of food and water.
  • The absence or loss of social, moral, or intellectual vitality or vigor.

I might use the word inanition in a sentence like this:

The man is homeless, aimless, perpetually struggling against hopelessness and inanition.

Inanition
Inanition