On occasion there are certain words in the English language that grab me. I guess I am usually more fascinated by words than pictures. It is probably the writer thing… Do you know the crazy part? I never ‘got’ English in school. Never figured out what it was for. If I had my time over I’d be doing an English Lit major at some university… followed by being a features writer for a magazine.
Anyway, as I said there are words that get me… here are some, they are in random order, they also appeal to me for random reasons, some for sound, some for meaning, some for no other reason that the prospect of turning them over in my mind and mincing them for their content, reshaping them to be used elsewhere; as inspiration, as meditation, as sword or shield. God uses words, both for and against us, I think it’s significant his legacy beyond salvation was a message in print, and that so much of that book has the power to move and change me. As much for the words as the spirit behind them.
Anyway…
1. steadfast
2. obstreperous
3. obsequious
4. serendipity
5. ethereal
6. earth station
7. aroha (a maori word for love)
8. familiar
9. beautiful
10. faithful
11. pilgrim
I had to run to the dictionary for #2: but what a word. And it sounds like its meaning — if you get what I mean.