Today's word

lunette \loo NET\- 1a. something that has the shape of a crescent or half-moon: as  b. an opening in a vault especially for a window.  c. the surface at the upper part of a wall that is partly surrounded by a vault which the wall intersects and that is often filled by windows or by mural painting.  d. a low crescentic mound (as of sand) formed by the wind.  2. the figure or shape of a crescent moon.

Pretty much as I'd have guessed . . . 

A curiosity

Why do my stats show so many hits from Russia???

(But none of these hits shows up in my outside analytics.  Weird.)

Today's words

cachinnate \KAK-uh-nayt\ - to laugh loudly or immoderately

risible \'ri-zə-bəl\ - 1a. capable of laughing b. disposed to laugh  2. arousing or provoking laughter; especially : laughable 3. associated with, relating to, or used in laughter

At times in my life, I'm so irrisible (is that a word, too?) that I feel alien amid others' laughter.

tump - to tip or turn over especially accidentally - usually used with over

More big red flags

In addition to the ones I've previously listed: last night I decided to shower even though we were in the middle of thunderstorms.  I practically begged God to hit the house.

And when I read about a famous (or not) person who has taken their own life, I shouldn't feel at all jealous of him or her.

God, am I fucking miserable.

What owns us

There's plenty said about the possessions that end up owning us, but I think that time is the more critical commodity to guard.  I'm rediscovering that I must be very careful about what I allow to consume my life, individually and collectively.  It isn't as if I'm not doing enough "spiritual things," but those things are no substitute for quiet prayer time.  I'm spending too little time with the One who loves me most, even when I am handed a gift-wrapped opportunity.

Perhaps it's because I don't like the paper those opportunities have been coming wrapped in?

The thing is, there are plenty of good reasons to fill our lives up with activities that may be good and even important, but the best will always suffer greatly under the tyranny of the merely good.

Today's word

abstruse - difficult to comprehend

I don't know why I'm listing this.  I know what it means.

Tunnels and meadows

Saturday: great sharing about how our decisions to be together have been feeling so much better than our decisions to be separate ever do, with pretty clear images to convey the contrast in feelings.  And when you tried to interpret that in terms of decisions you make when I've made you angry, I thought we really communicated together that it was a broader issue than that.

Monday: same old decisions, and I got to spend another evening back in the dark tunnel.

Maybe my life is going to be mostly in the tunnel, with only brief periods out in the beautiful open landscape.  Maybe that's my experience of the dark night of the soul, and I need to just appreciate the beautiful sunshine as it comes along, be thankful for it and for a life that lets me experience it once in a while, and not long for it so much when I'm not in the midst of it.