Observe.

⎸my writing ⎸ A Canadian writer, teacher and explorer currently living in Bogota, Colombia.

[nordic-language-love]

Advanced English: some of my favourite English words (2/?)

1. mendacious (adj)

dishonest, diverging from the truth (implying something habitual and intentional)

She liked to tell mendacious stories of her nights on the town.

The leader of this country is a mendacious racist.

2. loquacious (adj)

excessively talkative (with fluency and eloquence)

Being loquacious as he was, there was never an awkward silence when he was in the room.

Though she was normally quite loquacious, that stupid boy with his beautiful eyes turned her brains to jelly, and she couldn’t think of a single word to say to him.

3. diatribe (noun)

a bitter and abusive attack or criticism, denunciation

Her soft words cut through her uncle’s diatribe.

The article was a vicious diatribe against the new immigration policy.

4. farrago (noun)

a confused mixture

The film was a plotless farrago of aliens, zombie vikings and medieval knights.

Her workshop contained a farrago of odds and ends, from brightly-coloured scraps of fabrics to bicycle wheels to seemingly broken musical instruments.

5. soporific (adj)

inducing sleepiness or drowsiness

The warmth of the open fire, combined with my full belly, was powerfully soporific.

The lecture content would have been soporific enough without the professor’s dreary delivery.

[poems-and-word]

Poems & Words

[hopebe]

this too, the aperture thrown wide open, over- exposed, shallow depth of field, only the subject in focus—I think that’s…love, at first sight, something like synapses; Gestalt psychology, and how the mind will fill in the blanks as part of a greater pattern, greater purpose, the melody is heard first and then perceptually subdivided into what we understand as individual notes. Funny, bokeh or bouquet? truly, everything else fades. It’s Sunday, I still haven’t told you. You know so well how to manipulate light, what lens to use, how to position people, like objects, art is often more decadent, more gracefully wounding than reality. And we are forced to live in both. Even now, I feel the stasis, moments captured it time, perhaps episodically in memory and en- capsulating raw emotion—and each time you recall a memory, it becomes a memory of a memory, until it becomes nothing, not even love.

[books-n-quotes]

” Some poor, phoneless fool is probably sitting next to a waterfall somewhere totally unaware of how angry and scared he’s supposed to be ” -Duncan Trussell

[en-reparacixn]

[love-personal]

[labella-instagram]

[1000savagecomforts]

[thespilledquotes]

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951

[anxietyproblem]

[soyoumusik]

“Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

— Kurt Vonnegut (via lazypacific)

[kultklassic]

I just alternate between ‘maybe I’m smarter than I give myself credit for’ and ‘maybe I’m dumber than I realized’

[wherearethecig4rettes-deactivat]

[nbacademic]

you know what my perfect gift would be? an annotated copy of your favourite book. i don’t just mean a couple of tabs, i mean annotated. i mean highlighted to the ends of the earth, pages black with scribbled annotations, entire pages underlined and captioned ‘THIS’. i want to see tear stains on the pages, corners bent from when you threw it across the room, spine broken because you were too absorbed in the story to care. i want paragraphs of you yelling at characters, i want your witty remarks and sarcastic comments, i want your little doodles in the margins. because then you’re not just giving me a book. you’re giving me a little piece of yourself, and i think that’s the best gift you could give.

[thebyrchentwigges]

I don’t know where this came from but I NEEDED it

[eightsenses]

Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron

[mjegoss-blog]

Wooooow!

[aepex]