five words
Jumping onto the bandwagon... you too may comment and receive five words from me about/for you.
Here are the words sent (two friends, I get ten words!)
from ayeshadream:
curlygirl: Yes I am! It's the title of a great book about how to have enjoy the curly hair nature has granted to 60% of humans. It's also a mental place, I feel like my brain and hair may look a little similar :)
upholsterer: "...this is Maddy DuMont, upholsterer..." oddly I say that a lot, usually in the "who am I and why do you know me" part of a phone conversation. I love what I do and I'm super proud of it as well, from the tips of my raw fingers (lots of lashing springs) to my 'professional butt' testing the chairs of the world :)
Spike: It's such a great name. It is my SCA persona name, Spike Zoetaert, a young man from Zeeland (kinda Dutch) around 1435. On the advice of modern Dutch persons it's kinda pronounced like speak-eh, but I like the mystery and the many different pronunciations :)
Odd, I found it on St. Gabriel, but I just looked through all the links I'd saved and all the links currently online and cannot find it! How could it have been there (on several occasions I have looked it up) and have been removed? There is a Spiker on http://www.keesn.nl/name13/en4_list_by.htm, but I know what I found was "Spike" and it was a man's given name from around 1400 low countries. Oh well. My last name Zoetaert is still there: http://www.s-gabriel.org/docs/bruges/byname-list4.html
expression: Hard to answer that one. Expressive? Noisy and opinionated at least. In an artistic sense? Not much lately, I don't think the things I create express idea, at least not in any direct way. in the facial sense? I can still touch my tongue to my nose. On a "expound on that" side: expression is the output of one being, usually seeking to share a feeling or idea, and such a is a constant source for misunderstanding and frustration to most humans.
love: the one and only positive force that is in fact all forces and all emotions. Yup.
And five words from ornerie ("to expound on," but since I was already talking about 'associated with me' the expounding will be navel-gazing oriented):
1. effortless: I guess I try for this, but the result is often skilled effort or carefully selection what one does or does not do. I do try for minimal effort and maximum joy overall, it's true. The best part of being easily delighted? You get to be delighted a lot more :) I don't think of things as being effort-free so much as not requiring effort out of proportion to the result. Which means a certain amount of effort spent gauging results.
2. authenticity: in my fist medieval-related college course we were asked why we'd taken the course, my answer was that I wanted to know how people really lived then. My prof. sort of told we not to expect that, but my dedicated work in that class and others led her to invite me (my sophomore year) to take her junior tutorial "Death in the Middle Ages," and her offer to sponsor me if I could make "Medieval Studies" an ad hoc second major (I couldn't, different story). I point is that there is a level where brilliant people connect on the path of illuminating real history, and this is the super joy I get out of the SCA: smart people (doing real things!) seeking to understand our past by really paying attention to what they left behind. My point is that to me authenticity is not a bar to be met but a feeling of understanding, a flash of really tasting a particular time and place.
3. focus: Useful, or dangerous. Sometimes I have it, and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I go to some effort to un-focus. I do have above-average pain tolerance and attention span, I think that might be what focus is :)
4. manual: Apt for me, both the "did you read the manual?" side and the more obvious "I prefer to do things by hand when possible," although I must also confess I love power tools. The feel of doing a thing with hands (crushing herbs, rolling fabric, the wooden tool handle...) is special to me, that's manual. I hope to never lose any senses, 'cause I cannot imagine life without a sense of touch, but really they're all pretty sweet.
5. sparkle! Oh yeah. It's way better than shiny. Out of the corner of your eye, it catches your attention, it has movement and life and appears only in special places. It's seen in eyes, drinks, ideas, and laughter. Even just to word brightens thing!
Here are the words sent (two friends, I get ten words!)
from ayeshadream:
curlygirl: Yes I am! It's the title of a great book about how to have enjoy the curly hair nature has granted to 60% of humans. It's also a mental place, I feel like my brain and hair may look a little similar :)
upholsterer: "...this is Maddy DuMont, upholsterer..." oddly I say that a lot, usually in the "who am I and why do you know me" part of a phone conversation. I love what I do and I'm super proud of it as well, from the tips of my raw fingers (lots of lashing springs) to my 'professional butt' testing the chairs of the world :)
Spike: It's such a great name. It is my SCA persona name, Spike Zoetaert, a young man from Zeeland (kinda Dutch) around 1435. On the advice of modern Dutch persons it's kinda pronounced like speak-eh, but I like the mystery and the many different pronunciations :)
Odd, I found it on St. Gabriel, but I just looked through all the links I'd saved and all the links currently online and cannot find it! How could it have been there (on several occasions I have looked it up) and have been removed? There is a Spiker on http://www.keesn.nl/name13/en4_list_by.htm, but I know what I found was "Spike" and it was a man's given name from around 1400 low countries. Oh well. My last name Zoetaert is still there: http://www.s-gabriel.org/docs/bruges/byname-list4.html
expression: Hard to answer that one. Expressive? Noisy and opinionated at least. In an artistic sense? Not much lately, I don't think the things I create express idea, at least not in any direct way. in the facial sense? I can still touch my tongue to my nose. On a "expound on that" side: expression is the output of one being, usually seeking to share a feeling or idea, and such a is a constant source for misunderstanding and frustration to most humans.
love: the one and only positive force that is in fact all forces and all emotions. Yup.
And five words from ornerie ("to expound on," but since I was already talking about 'associated with me' the expounding will be navel-gazing oriented):
1. effortless: I guess I try for this, but the result is often skilled effort or carefully selection what one does or does not do. I do try for minimal effort and maximum joy overall, it's true. The best part of being easily delighted? You get to be delighted a lot more :) I don't think of things as being effort-free so much as not requiring effort out of proportion to the result. Which means a certain amount of effort spent gauging results.
2. authenticity: in my fist medieval-related college course we were asked why we'd taken the course, my answer was that I wanted to know how people really lived then. My prof. sort of told we not to expect that, but my dedicated work in that class and others led her to invite me (my sophomore year) to take her junior tutorial "Death in the Middle Ages," and her offer to sponsor me if I could make "Medieval Studies" an ad hoc second major (I couldn't, different story). I point is that there is a level where brilliant people connect on the path of illuminating real history, and this is the super joy I get out of the SCA: smart people (doing real things!) seeking to understand our past by really paying attention to what they left behind. My point is that to me authenticity is not a bar to be met but a feeling of understanding, a flash of really tasting a particular time and place.
3. focus: Useful, or dangerous. Sometimes I have it, and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I go to some effort to un-focus. I do have above-average pain tolerance and attention span, I think that might be what focus is :)
4. manual: Apt for me, both the "did you read the manual?" side and the more obvious "I prefer to do things by hand when possible," although I must also confess I love power tools. The feel of doing a thing with hands (crushing herbs, rolling fabric, the wooden tool handle...) is special to me, that's manual. I hope to never lose any senses, 'cause I cannot imagine life without a sense of touch, but really they're all pretty sweet.
5. sparkle! Oh yeah. It's way better than shiny. Out of the corner of your eye, it catches your attention, it has movement and life and appears only in special places. It's seen in eyes, drinks, ideas, and laughter. Even just to word brightens thing!