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[justalittlelogophile]

Blanket

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

Pictures taken by my own hand whilst adventuring up in the mountains.

Apparently this phenomenon of the feather like crystal patterns is called a “Hoar Frost.” 🤔🧐

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[justalittlelogophile]

Sustain

"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)

Occasionally I am hit with a sense of veneration in those low moments when I feel like nobody truly understands me, and the Good Lord presents me with an inspiration that is so delicately personal that any present doubt is promptly and completely shattered. I find myself having such a case in this very instant. Where being the curious little logophile that I am, I found myself inspired or guided in a personal scripture study to expound on a word that happened to be repeated to me offhandedly this week. The word being "sustained". In my studies, I found the most insightful definitions listed above as well as this scripture found in the fourth chapter of second book of Nephi (2 Nephi 4: 20-21): "20 My God hath been my support; he hath led me through mine afflictions in the wilderness; and he hath preserved me upon the waters of the great deep.

21 He hath filled me with his love, even unto the consuming of my flesh." Or in other words AKA Po's Personal Translation:

"God has been holding me this entire time without me even truly realizing it. He has been there, listening and caring about the heavy concerns that weigh upon my heart. He is there. Especially in those places that seem barren and without any hope. He has kept me alive, preserving me in those moments when I feel inescapably buried, nigh unto drowning underneath the waves of the world. Nevertheless, no matter how deep and dark it may feel in those incomprehensible moments, He has been there with me this entire time."

Lesson: Heavenly Father knows me. Just as I witness that He knows you.

He knows of my affinity for words and connects them in such beautiful ways that faithfully testify He will not let me drown. He loves all of us, even when we don't feel it. He keeps that spark of life protected even in those dark moments when I have wanted nothing more than to be extinguished. How grateful I am that in His infinite care and mercy, Heavenly Father continues to hold me. Just as I swear to you today, that He is holding and sustaining you. ~Po

(header belongs to the talented Miss @firefly-graphics)

[justalittlelogophile]

Epimeletic

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

Epimeletic (adj): Nurturing, caregiving, protective behavior and actions shown by an adult animal toward another individual that is distressed, injured or dead.

(Header belongs to @laur on Pintrest)

[justalittlelogophile]

🩶💢 Tension 💢🩶

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?

~Po

[justalittlelogophile]

Balter

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.

There something about the embrace of the sun

warming the skin on my face and shoulders

Or feeling the cool tickle of the swirling waves

against my feet

When I spin and dip like the seagulls of the sea

The movement of my dance somehow, someway

Fills the empty space

In the broken pieces inside of me

~Po🌊

[justalittlelogophile]

Agentive

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

“And the Messiah cometh in the fulness of time, that he may redeemthe children of men from the fall. And because that they are redeemed from the fall they have become free forever, knowing good from evil; to act for themselves and not to be acted upon…” ~2 Nephi 2: 26

[brettholomew21]

"Halcyon" is the most beautiful word in all of language.

[surfacecurrents]

2013 Book List

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)

Cosmopolis, by Don DeLillo (2)