Sunday, March 30, 2008

Spring!


Ode to Spring
Owe spring you robbed me four times!
With only glimpses of you in my travels
To see the trees in this cold place
To feel their inner strength as I walk past
There is life in there!
It is waiting to burst out and love for a life
Like the sponges that expand 600 times their size
You pack the leaves and, ever growing, you await
Await those brilliant stark spring days when the world is saying to wake
You wait for those natural signs
It’s natural
Oh do not leave me again spring!

Ice


This is the first cold winter that I have had in 4 years and to tell you the truth, I cant get enough of it! I have immensely enjoyed driving around the northeast through snow and ice storms. The large picture on the front of my blog is in a beautiful canyon in West Virginia. Ice is beautiful and I am sad to see it go but now I am excited for spring!

Vocabulary

My favorite words this week are:

Derelict 1: abandoned especially by the owner or occupant 2: lacking a sense of duty

Stymie: to present an obstacle to : stand in the way of

Cantankerous: difficult or irritating to deal with

I had experiences with each of these words this week. The first was heard while listening to "Life of Pi" on an audio book while I drove between sales calls. The second was while on sales calls in New Jersey. Mike, an outside sales rep that cracks me up said that our next call was stymied by an owner in a bad mood. The third was told to me by my friend Danny last year and I heard it on a talk radio show this week as I drove.

I am really trying to expand my vocabulary and this blog will be a good way to do that. I will think, "hey, that's a good word for my blog".

Please, let me know your favorite words and why in the comment section of this post.