Zeugma (n)

A writers' exercise. Playing around with zeugma may not always be very readable, but it is fun as a pun. Playfulness like this, if it becomes intuitive, can set a seasoned writer, or tear a novice writer, apart.

Oniomaia (n)

Frankly, a problem in today's society. Perhaps from latent effects of poverty and depressions which leave people with nothing, and so any acquisition is a good thing. And even after that person has graduated from struggling with scarcity can't shake that mindset... Perhaps it's affected by omnipresent advertising. Perhaps there are other causes. Perhaps it's a little natural to want things. Perhaps there's a little harder inside all of us.

I have almost the opposite problem: a compulsive urge to get rid of too much shit around I've branded "minimalism".

January Quote

"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."

--John A. Shedd, "Salt from My Attic"

First Joke of the New Year

Did Rudolph ever go to school?

                   ...Not really... He was elf taught.

Eucatastrophe (n)

A suddenly good thing. Like the strange coincidence of Canada and the USA running decent political contestants for the first time in Decades. If the US elects Bernie Sanders, we'll have a small eucatastrophe on the contenent.

Then we just have to keep living well too. We sometimes have a little trouble doing that, being spoiled as we are.

A word by the great JRR Tolkien.