Random Ramblings #1

Words to keep inside your pocket:

Quiescent - a quiet, soft-spoken soul.

Chimerical - merely imaginary; fanciful.

Susurrus - a whispering or rustling sound.

Raconteur - one who excels in story-telling.

Clinquant - glittering; tinsel-like.

Aubade - a song greeting the dawn.

Ephemeral - lasting a very short time.

Sempiternal - everlasting; eternal.

Euphonious - pleasing; sweet in sound.

Billet-doux - a love letter.

Redamancy - act of loving in return

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Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.

Picture This:

An abbey with bells tolling out loud. Midnight or thereabout. Windy and dim. A dark shadow flitting from the eaves to the highest tower. A snapshot of a candle flickering in a window. An empty cage, unlocked. You can be anything you want. And then there is darkness.

[Image: A Sea of Steps, Wells Cathedral, by Frederick Henry Evans, 1903; in the George Eastman House Collection, Rochester, N.Y., U.S.]  

Painted Moon

Existential Crisis #1: How can something that means the world to me, mean nothing at all to the world?

Existential Crisis #2: How can something that means the world to the world, mean nothing at all to me?