Words are delicious

I make lists of all the words I don’t know on a pending list to find their meaning and lately, all of the words I am discovering are sounding delicious. Maybe it's because I'm quite hungry..they sound like you could eat them....anyway. I'm not quite sure how I will squidge them into conversations, though.

These words are from the book “the Shipping News” by E. Annie Proulx (you can find them in other places as well)

Words:

Phantasmagoria
Ingratiatingly
Elusive
Sumptuous
Prodigious
Ostentatiously
Overwraught
Nonpariel
Evasion
Portent
Asunder
Allusion

Yum yum.

Ebbing Away

I understand Their and There. I know what context they need to be used in and I understand why. But lately, I have been getting them mixed up in a non-thinking way. These days, apart from poems and shopping lists, I do the majority of writing on a computer and I think it is a case of my hands thinking faster than my brain.

When I was at college, I was so aware of similes and metaphors and adjectives and nouns and euphemisms. I used to know a lot more and it used to stream from me effortlessly. Now I seem to have forgotten many things, as if my educated self is disappearing and my education is slowly ebbing away.

At college, the thing I liked about it was how it opened my mind. I felt as if I was narrow minded to the world before and through college it opened the eyes in my mind and now I am more aware of everything and most significantly aware of how much there is I know nothing about.