Words I love

Maybe it’s because I grew up around them, have memories of scaling red dirt cliffs and gazing at dry valleys filled with them, but hoodoos are nostalgic; feel hot, feel lonesome, feel aweinspiring. Maybe this feeling of awe is also why the Blackfoot and Cree “believed them to be petrified giants who come alive at night to hurl rocks at intruders.”_{http://www.traveldrumheller.com/hoodoos.html}

I wish I was twitterpated more often!

there are so many reasons to love this word… it sounds like a note of music, it has a golden colour that changes in the light, it has a sleekness that sticks to you, it’s sweet, it’s quiet, it’s subtle, it’s friendly like Pooh Bear.

...pouring out, like ‘gushing’, but much more suave sounding.

In any case, I like it cuz it means ‘not holding back’ to me.

Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. Folksonomy describes the bottom-up classification systems that emerge from social tagging. In contrast to traditional subject indexing, metadata is generated not only by experts but also by creators and consumers of the content. Usually, freely chosen keywords are used instead of a controlled vocabulary. Folksonomy (from folk + taxonomy) is a user-generated taxonomy. _{Source: Wikipedia}

A North American 80’s TV show hero… Known for getting out of scrapes with a roll of twine and his wits.

_{A line from my recent slightly panicked help we’re in trouble email sent to friends ”...otherwise, we will become MacGyvers and rig something… uh oh, i forgot, our Swiss Army knives were confiscated at the airport. JK… don’t worry, i packed a sewing kit. xxoo”}

I love the thought that working through something OR being worked through something makes you stronger, no matter how painful the bending and folding is… it comes out with a harder steel in the longrun : )

1. To modify by the addition of a moderating element; moderate: "temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom" (Robert H. Jackson). See Synonyms at moderate.
2. To bring to a desired consistency, texture, hardness, or other physical condition by or as if by blending, admixing, or kneading: temper clay; paints that had been tempered with oil.
3. To harden or strengthen (metal or glass) by application of heat or by heating and cooling.
4. To strengthen through experience or hardship; toughen: soldiers who had been tempered by combat.
5. To adjust finely; attune: a portfolio that is tempered to the investor's needs.
6. Music To adjust (the pitch of an instrument) to a temperament.

_{tempered. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved September 22, 2008, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tempered}

even though it doesn’t look particularly pretty, when said aloud, i think that it has a bit of the ring of its meaning… it sort of sings to me.

get on down there