#werd nerd

I love that word when describing winter

“A blanket of snow”

Falling, heavy, thick

Warm with the promise of repose

So hibernate, Dear One

Rest with your blanket of the season

~Po

"May you know you are sustained in your efforts to do good." Sustain (v) : To strengthen or support physically and mentally

To hold; To keep from falling

To support

To keep from sinking in despondence

To keep alive

To bear; To endure without failing or yielding (An expounded exhortation shall follow)

You’re my favorite flavor of curmudgeon

Grumpy old cowboy who scoffs at the world

Yet you are the one who taught me

What it means to love, to listen, to show up

To go slow + work hard even when no one cares

We may be separated by the decades

Yet I’ve never felt more connected

Than in our shared wonder of the natural world

You’re my grumpy old man, and I, your sunshine girl

You listen to my ramblings and I thrive with your questions

As together we learn and explore the silly, the deep, and the mystery of the unknown

Is it any wonder then you’re what my heart considers home?

~Po

Do you ever think about tension?

The mental and emotional strain between two characters. Where Character A, with something to prove whether to themselves or to Character B, looks up with their chin jutted and their shoulders square and says, “I’m not scared of you.” And Character B, in attempt to protect whether themselves or Character A, gets up close and personal with narrowed but smoldering eyes and all but growls out, “You should be.” … Do y’all ever think about tension?

Hikurangi ~ Helena Bay (v) To dance artlessly, without any particular grace or skill but usually with enjoyment. To dance or tread clumsily, though usually happily.

Agentive (adj): Taking an active role; producing an effect, a means or instrument by which a guiding intelligence achieves a result.

Every year the only New Year’s resolution I make is to read 30 books. And every year I don’t even come close. But in 2013 I graduated university, stopped having textbook assignments, and finally fucking did it! Following each listing is my personal rating (out of 5 stars) and the linked text means I bothered to write a book review.

The Invisible Man, by H.G. Wells (3)

Foundation, by Isaac Asimov (5)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne (2)

Call of the Mild, by Lily Raff McCaulou (3)

I’m Starved for You, by Margaret Atwood (3)

Choke Collar, by Margaret Atwood (3.5)

Erase Me, by Margaret Atwood (3.5)

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel (4)

Black Hole, by Charles Burns (3)

The Darling and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov (4)

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (4.5)

Short Science Fiction Collection, by Fritz Leiber (2)

Manon Lescaut, by Antoine Prévost (3)

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami (4)

The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen (4)

American Gods, by Neil Gaiman (5)

Native Tongue, by Carl Hiaasen (3)

The Heart Goes Last, by Margaret Atwood (3)

White Teeth, by Zadie Smith (3.5)

Bad Monkey, by Carl Hiaasen (2)

Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen (3)

Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood (3)

Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee (4)

To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf (2)

I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson (5)

The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway (4.5)

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (4)

The Sea, The Sea, by Iris Murdoch (4.5)

We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin (3)