infradian August 21, 2024 #words (of a rhythm or cycle) having a period of recurrence longer than a day; occurring less than once a day Marcel Proust August 21, 2024 #quotes "The unknown element in the lives of other people is like that of nature, which each fresh scientific discovery merely reduces but does not abolish." galumphing August 15, 2024 #words moving in a clumsy, ponderous or noisy manner; inelegant eidetic August 15, 2024 #words relating to or denoting mental images having unusual vividness and detail, as if actually visible W. Edwards Deming August 15, 2024 #quotes "A bad system will beat a good person every time." quotidian August 12, 2024 #words of or occurring every day; daily; ordinary or everyday; mundane medusian August 12, 2024 #words pertaining to a medusa or jellyfish senary August 12, 2024 #words relating to or based on the number six scolex August 12, 2024 #words the anterior end of a tapeworm, bearing suckers and hooks for attachment! analgesia August 12, 2024 #words the inability to feel pain (while conscious), or, drugs that stop you from feeling pain formication August 12, 2024 #words a symptom where you hallucinate the feeling of insects crawling in, on or underneath your skin annelid August 12, 2024 #words any of various wormlike animals, of the phylum Annelida, having a segmented body tmesis August 12, 2024 #words the separation of parts of a compound word by an intervening word or words, heard mainly in informal speech (e.g. 'a whole nother story') oubliette August 12, 2024 #words a secret dungeon with access only through a trapdoor in its ceiling purulent August 12, 2024 #words consisting of, containing or discharging pus pruritic August 12, 2024 #words having or causing itching interregnum August 12, 2024 #words a period when normal government is suspended, especially between successive reigns or regimes ambergris August 12, 2024 #words a waxy substance that originates as a secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale, found floating in tropical seas and used in perfume manufacture foodflation August 12, 2024 #words the continuous rise in the price of food which is higher than the general inflation level Bacchanalia August 12, 2024 #words an uncontrollably loud, promiscuous, wild party (the Roman festival of Bacchus) ovipositor August 12, 2024 #words a tube-like organ used by some animals, especially insects, for the laying of eggs inviolate August 12, 2024 #words free or safe from injury or violation; untouched fatalism August 12, 2024 #words the belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable Esther Yi August 12, 2024 #quotes "True, thousands of kilometers may have been closed between you and him, but keep thinking with a measuring stick and you'll reduce yourself to an asymptote." Deena Shanker August 12, 2024 #quotes "If you want people to eat something, show them it's delicious." Sisyphean August 12, 2024 #words denoting or relating to a task that can never be completed Kentucky River in Red August 11, 2024 #art galling August 10, 2024 #words annoying; humiliating vitiate August 9, 2024 #words to spoil or impair the quality of presentiment August 9, 2024 #words an intuitive feeling about the future, especially one of foreboding puerile August 8, 2024 #words childishly silly and immature insalubrious August 4, 2024 #words seedy and run-down; unwholesome vagaries July 18, 2024 #words unexpected and inexplicable changes in a situation or in someone’s behavior reptatory July 18, 2024 #words creeping, crawling; clinging or growing over walls or on the ground phantasmagorical July 18, 2024 #words very strange, like something in a dream eponymous July 18, 2024 #words of a person giving their name to something, or of a thing that received the name of a person dogsbody July 18, 2024 #words (informal, British) a person who is given boring, menial tasks to do apologia July 18, 2024 #words a formal written defense of one's opinions or conduct accidie July 18, 2024 #words [mass noun] (literary) spiritual or mental sloth; apathy Joan Didion July 18, 2024 #quotes “We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy will lead the children into the sea. The naked woman on the ledge outside the window on the sixteenth floor is a victim of accidie, or the naked woman is an exhibitionist, and it would be 'interesting' to know which. We tell ourselves that it makes some difference…” [see more] Aristophanic July 18, 2024 #words shrewd, witty; pertaining to the writings or style of Aristophanes, the great comic poet of Athens intercalate July 17, 2024 #words to insert (something, such as a day) in a calendar zeitgeber July 16, 2024 #words a rhythmically occurring natural phenomenon or social cue which regulates the body's circadian rhythms Jacqueline Harpman July 16, 2024 #quotes “Perhaps, when someone has experienced a day-to-day life that makes sense, they can never become accustomed to strangeness. That is something that I, who have only experienced absurdity, can only suppose.” porcine July 15, 2024 #words of or relating to pigs homunculi July 15, 2024 #words very small human or humanoid creatures evergreen July 15, 2024 #words enduringly fresh ecocide July 15, 2024 #words destruction of the natural environment by deliberate or negligent human action Marcus Aurelius July 15, 2024 #quotes “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” Sylvia Plath July 12, 2024 #quotes “Even the apostles were tentmakers. We all have to make a living.” Joan Didion July 12, 2024 #quotes “Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention.” Albert Einstein July 12, 2024 #quotes "For all of us who are concerned for peace and the triumph of reason and justice must today be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field … yet we may rest assured that without the tireless efforts if those who are concerned with the welfare of humanity as a whole…" [expand] facies July 11, 2024 #words appearance or facial expression of someone characteristic of a certain disease or condition lacuna July 11, 2024 #words an unfilled space; a gap flotsam July 11, 2024 #words people or things that have been rejected or discarded as worthless cavil July 11, 2024 #words make petty or unnecessary objections mendacious July 11, 2024 #words not telling the truth; lying siciliano July 11, 2024 #words a dance, song, or musical piece in 6/8 or 12/8 time evoking a pastoral mood sententious July 11, 2024 #words self-righteous; trying to appear wise, intelligent, and important, in a way that is annoying inveigle July 11, 2024 #words persuade (someone) to do something by means of deception or flattery Raphael Warnock July 11, 2024 #quotes “When you're accustomed to privilege, parity and equity and equality may feel like oppression.” Ottessa Moshfegh July 11, 2024 #quotes “Education is directly proportional to anxiety, as you’ve probably learned.” Norman Mailer July 11, 2024 #quotes “The slow twists and turns of one's creative impulse can be a form of protecting oneself from the driving force, which sometimes is manic.” Mary Oliver July 11, 2024 #quotes “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” Lemony Snicket July 11, 2024 #quotes “Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative." Joan Didion July 11, 2024 #quotes “Did he know I was writing it? He edited it.” Esther Yi July 11, 2024 #quotes “God was unexpectedly gripped by ambition. God wasn't content to limit himself to the material usually reserved for the creation of a single person. So he reached for another pile…” [expand] motley July 9, 2024 #words incongruously varied in appearance or character; disparate. adjective or noun. aquiline July 9, 2024 #words of or relating to an eagle; curving like an eagle's beak benighted July 9, 2024 #words intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened Esther Yi July 9, 2024 #quotes “‘I'd kill to feel what you're feeling,’ the Music Professor said, laying her head back on a hand. ‘That doorway feeling. To be on the cusp of experience. I'd kill to know it again.’" Green Girl July 7, 2024 #art learning to draw Anne Carson July 3, 2024 #quotes “I will do anything to avoid boredom. It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.” Mary Oliver July 2, 2024 #quotes “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” ursine June 27, 2024 #words of or relating to a bear or the bear family (Ursidae) spate June 27, 2024 #words a large number of similar things coming in quick succession deliquescent June 27, 2024 #words becoming liquid, or having a tendency to become liquid besotted June 27, 2024 #words strongly infatuated Ta-Nehisi Coates June 27, 2024 #quotes “You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.” Richard Selzer June 27, 2024 #quotes “For the first time we can see into the cavity of the abdomen. Such a primitive place. One expects to find drawings of buffalo on the walls.” James Baldwin June 27, 2024 #quotes “To accept one's past one's history— is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.” Cole Arthur Riley June 27, 2024 #quotes “You will not survive by self care and self-love alone. Who will hold you? Who will remember you? You, who are something to behold. You, who are flawed and mysterious and needy and good.” Alice Walker June 27, 2024 #quotes “When I consider that he is, they are, a real and present threat to my life and the life of my daughter, my people, I think—in perfect harmony with my sister of long ago: Let the earth marinate in poisons. Let the bombs cover the ground like rain. For nothing short of total destruction will ever teach them anything.” Alice Walker June 27, 2024 #quotes “Only justice can stop a curse.” opulence | collage June 22, 2024 #art collage, via pinterest tool Anaïs Nin June 22, 2024 #quotes “For a year, in semisolitude, my imagination has had time to grow beyond measure.” Esther Yi, in Y/N June 20, 2024 #quotes "When you confront him with the full force of who you are, only then will he realize he's been waiting for you. You have to show up and confront him with his destiny in the form of you." neoprene June 20, 2024 #words a synthetic polymer resembling rubber; resistant to oil, heat and weathering dialectics June 20, 2024 #words the art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions Mary Oliver June 20, 2024 #quotes “The tire goes flat, the tooth falls out, there will be a hundred meals without mustard. The poem gets written.” Esther Yi, in Y/N June 20, 2024 #quotes "But the ballet dancers were nothing more than smoothly running machines, noiseless and neoprene." Dickensian June 19, 2024 #words of or reminiscent of the novels of Charles Dickens, especially in suggesting the poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters that they portray avuncular June 19, 2024 #words kind and friendly towards a younger or less experienced person (from Latin avunculus: ‘’maternal uncle’) advent June 19, 2024 #words the arrival of a notable person or thing raison d'être June 19, 2024 #words the most important reason or purpose for someone or something's existence resistentialism June 19, 2024 #words seemingly spiteful behavior manifested by inanimate objects Mary Oliver June 19, 2024 #quotes “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” Robert Southey June 17, 2024 #quotes "It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn." verboten June 17, 2024 #words forbidden, especially by an authority fabulist June 17, 2024 #words a person who composes or relates fables Next page