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15 Things I Learned in 2024 December 11, 2024 #notebook Charisma is not a reason to trust. I am not everybody’s cup of tea, and that is okay. (Trying to be everybody’s cup of tea makes me a weak cup of bell hooks December 11, 2024 #quotes "There remains a small strain of feminist thinkers who feel strongly that they have given all they want to give to men; they are concerned solely with improving the collective welfare of women. Yet life has shown me that any time ..." [expand] Kentucky River 1 December 11, 2024 #art sociometry December 11, 2024 #words the study of relationships within a group of people exhortatory December 11, 2024 #words strongly encouraging or trying to persuade someone to do something transverse December 11, 2024 #words situated or extending across something inured December 11, 2024 #words accustomed to something, especially something unpleasant bigwig December 11, 2024 #words an important person, especially in a particular sphere goad December 11, 2024 #words provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate some action or reaction pundit December 11, 2024 #words an expert in a particular subject or field who is frequently called on to give opinions about it to the public pontificate December 11, 2024 #words to speak or express opinions in a pompous or dogmatic way regnant December 11, 2024 #words reigning; ruling; currently having the greatest influence; dominant oenophile December 11, 2024 #words a connoisseur of wines kakistocracy December 11, 2024 #words government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state gilt December 11, 2024 #words covered thinly with gold leaf or gold paint Henry David Thoreau December 7, 2024 #quotes "We find only the world we look for." absquatulate December 4, 2024 #words leave abruptly James Baldin October 23, 2024 #quotes "Best advice I ever got was an old friend of mine, a black friend, who said you have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all." circumspect October 23, 2024 #words wary and unwilling to take risks lithesome October 23, 2024 #words (especially of a person's body) thin, supple, and graceful bestiary October 23, 2024 #words a descriptive or anecdotal treatise on various real or mythical kinds of animals, especially a medieval work with a moralizing tone junket October 23, 2024 #words an extravagent trip of celebration, in particular one enjoyed by a government official at public expense Daedalian October 23, 2024 #words ingeniously or cunningly designed; artistic, ingenious, intricate, skillful; labrynthine; relating to, or of, Daedalus, a legendary Greek architect and inventor Susan Sontag October 23, 2024 #quotes “I am hooked on talk as a creative dialogue ... For me, it’s the principal medium of my salvation." beclown October 23, 2024 #words [archaic] to make a fool of (another), to make into a clown; to clown around, make a fool of oneself Samuel Delany October 23, 2024 #quotes "Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind — vividly, forcefully — that good writing, which stops with clarity and logic, doesn't." Anaïs Nin October 23, 2024 #quotes "Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feels as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic." James Baldwin October 22, 2024 #quotes "All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up." Amiri Baraka October 22, 2024 #quotes "The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it." Her October 20, 2024 #art tachyphylaxis October 15, 2024 #words rapidly diminishing response to successive doses of a drug, rendering it less effective intestate October 15, 2024 #words not having made a will before one dies accretive October 15, 2024 #words characterized by gradual growth or increase iniquities October 15, 2024 #words immoral or grossly unfair behavior (usually plural) antalgic October 15, 2024 #words marked by or being an unnatural position or movement assumed by someone to minimize or alleviate pain or discomfort (as in the leg or back) tryst October 15, 2024 #words a private romantic rendezvous between lovers (noun); keep a private, romantic rendezvous with a lover (verb) primitivism October 15, 2024 #words 1. a belief in the value of what is simple and unsophisticated, expressed as a philosophy of life or through art or literature 2. instinctive and unreasoning behavior hermetically October 15, 2024 #words in a way that is completely airtight vouchsafe October 15, 2024 #words to give or grant (something) to (someone) in a gracious or condescending manner; to reveal or disclose (information) rewild October 15, 2024 #words restore (an area of land) to its natural uncultivated state rankle October 15, 2024 #words (of a comment, event or fact) cause annoyance or resentment that persists; (of a wound or sore) continue to be painful; fester discarnate October 15, 2024 #words (of a person or being) not having a physical body apoplectic October 15, 2024 #words overcome with anger; extremely indignant brickbat October 15, 2024 #words a piece of brick, typically when used as a weapon; a remark or comment which is highly critical and typically insulting solipsism October 15, 2024 #words the quality of being very self-centered or selfish; (philosophy) the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist galvanic October 15, 2024 #words sudden and dramatic; relating to or involving electric currents produced by chemical action glib October 15, 2024 #words (of words or the person speaking them) fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow spurious October 15, 2024 #words not being what it purports to be; false or fake punctiliousness October 15, 2024 #words the quality of being very careful to behave correctly or to give attention to details pastiche October 15, 2024 #words [noun] an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period; [verb] to imitate the style of (an artist or work) Margaret Atwood October 15, 2024 #quotes "Electricity can light your lamp or it can burn down your house; and so it is with human power." George Orwell October 15, 2024 #quotes "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." careworn October 3, 2024 #words tired and unhappy because of prolonged worry paroxysm October 3, 2024 #words a sudden attack or violent expression of a particular emotion or activity manqué October 3, 2024 #words having failed to become what one might have been; unfulfilled Ezra Klein October 3, 2024 #quotes "In dark times when so much in the news is so unrelentingly horrible, it is a political act ... to open yourself to the awe and joy and beauty the world still provides. To sit with a poem or take a walk in the woods isn't an abdication..." [expand] gimcrack September 26, 2024 #words flimsy or poorly made but deceptively attractive decumbent September 25, 2024 #words of a plant, which lies on the ground with tips turned upwards pro forma September 25, 2024 #words done or produced as a matter of form (e.g. pro forma praise) teleology September 25, 2024 #words the explanation of phenomena in terms of the purpose they serve rather than of the cause by which they arise changeling September 25, 2024 #words a child believed to have been secretly substituted by fairies for the parents' real child in infancy traduce September 25, 2024 #words speak badly or of tell lies about (someome) so as to damage their reputation proscription September 25, 2024 #words the action or forbidding something; banning; condemnation or denunciation of something augury September 25, 2024 #words a sign of what will happen in the future; an omen craven September 25, 2024 #words contemptibly lacking in courage; cowardly nostrum September 25, 2024 #words a medicine prepared by an unqualified person, especially one that is not considered effective; a scheme or remedy for bringing about some social or political reform or improvement panacea September 25, 2024 #words a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases mainspring September 25, 2024 #words the main agent of motivation braincase September 25, 2024 #words the cranium voluble September 25, 2024 #words (of a person) talking fluently, readily or incessantly; (of speech) characterized by fluency and readiness of utterance cryptozoology September 25, 2024 #words the search for and study of animals whose existence or survival is disputed or unsubstantiated, such as the Loch Ness monster rat trap September 25, 2024 #words an unpleasant situation that offers no prospect of improvement; a squalid or ramshackle building bodhisattva September 25, 2024 #words (in Mahayana Buddhism) a person who is able to reach nirvana but delays doing so out of compassion in order to save suffering beings abrade September 25, 2024 #words scrape or wear away by friction or erosion; wear away/down Toni Morrison September 6, 2024 #quotes "Like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous." Kerry Howley September 6, 2024 #quotes "A person you cannot imagine is a person whose safety you will treat with a certain lightness." Kentucky River 2 September 2, 2024 #art repose August 26, 2024 #words a state of rest, sleep or tranquility; the state of being calm and composed footfall August 26, 2024 #words the sound of a footstep or footsteps; or (mass noun) the number of people entering a shop or shopping area in a given time inkwell August 26, 2024 #words a pot for ink housed in a hole in a desk trackbed August 26, 2024 #words the foundation structure on which railway tracks are laid detritus August 26, 2024 #words waste or debris of any kind autotelic August 26, 2024 #words (of an activity or a creative work) having an end or purpose in itself Antonio Gramsci August 25, 2024 #quotes "The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned." Alice Walker August 25, 2024 #quotes "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." noetic August 24, 2024 #words relating to mental activity or the intellect dispensation August 24, 2024 #words exemption from a rule or usual requirement equinoctial August 24, 2024 #words happening at or near the time of the equinox (in August 2024, New York Times used 'equinoctials' as a noun to mean 'summer lovers') anhedonia August 24, 2024 #words the inability to feel pleasure Henry David Thoreau August 24, 2024 #quotes "All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers, or backgammon, a playing with right and wrong; its obligation never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting for the right thing is doing nothing for it. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority." Margaret Renkl August 24, 2024 #quotes "If there is any truth more fundamental than the human need to be chosen, surely it is the abiding suspicion that we don't deserve to be chosen." Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (movie) August 24, 2024 #quotes "Desires are never mundane." W.E.B. Du Bois August 24, 2024 #quotes "I regarded it as axiomatic that the world wanted to learn the truth and if the truth was sought with even approximate accuracy and painstaking devotion, the world would gladly support the effort." Fyodor Dostoyevsky August 21, 2024 #quotes "Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where I was once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the irrevocable past, and I often wander like a shadow, aimless..." [expand] repine August 21, 2024 #words to feel or express discontent; to fret Jennifer Egan August 21, 2024 #quotes "...Quantifiability doesn't make human life any less remarkable, or even (this is counterintuitive, I know) less mysterious." purism August 21, 2024 #words scrupulous or exaggerated observance of or insistence on traditional rules or structures, especially in language or style bloc August 21, 2024 #words a group of countries or political parties with common interests who have formed an alliance cataphatic August 21, 2024 #words (of knowledge of God) obtained through affirmation apophatic August 21, 2024 #words (of knowledge of God) obtained through negating concepts that might be applied to him