Nebulous concepts that embody so much.
Nebulous because they defy simple definition. I mean there's always going to be the dictionary definition, but what language, culture, and a host of other ideas embody is hard to pin down because it is constantly changing. There are rules but language and culture are creative. There can be a ripple in the rules that permanently change the thing.
I see concepts (ideas?) such as language and culture as clay or something a little more elastic where a nudge may cause a ripple, but a strong enough force (whether one big force or tiny and repetitive force in one location) changes the shape of the thing. Slang enters the realm of dictionary language and is eventually absorbed into the "norm."
These things are three-dimensional and change according to circumstance. It's fascinating.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Poetry is evocative
So many thoughts roaming around in my head!
There are too many thought projects to synthesize into coherency.. I shall list a few to at least get something down.
1. The perception of people's states as stationary or robust (is that the word?) and how it affects another person's attitude toward them.
2. Life, attitudes, and our surroundings is all about synthesis.
3. Cooking, for me, does not end with a "finished dish." Like reading, I am in constant dialogue with my cooking.
4. The illusion in certainty.
5. Poetry's ability to evoke emotion with its outward simplicity and underlying complexity. (And I do love wordplay).
Bah, I'll never get through them all.
Been motivated now that I'm pretty much over my cold (there's a lingering cough, as if to remind me of my weakened state).
Poetry makes me poetic. Rather, it makes me enjoy wordplay.
Getting back into writing, at least fiction. Now to turn that energy towards academic writing! It really is like an imposing wall, just looming over me in this very domineering and impregnable fashion.
Perhaps it is all in my head. I feel like my thoughts are bouncing in 100 different directions. We shall see where this leads us (because each of my thoughts has become a person, turning me, into a collective we).
There are too many thought projects to synthesize into coherency.. I shall list a few to at least get something down.
1. The perception of people's states as stationary or robust (is that the word?) and how it affects another person's attitude toward them.
2. Life, attitudes, and our surroundings is all about synthesis.
3. Cooking, for me, does not end with a "finished dish." Like reading, I am in constant dialogue with my cooking.
4. The illusion in certainty.
5. Poetry's ability to evoke emotion with its outward simplicity and underlying complexity. (And I do love wordplay).
Bah, I'll never get through them all.
Been motivated now that I'm pretty much over my cold (there's a lingering cough, as if to remind me of my weakened state).
Poetry makes me poetic. Rather, it makes me enjoy wordplay.
Getting back into writing, at least fiction. Now to turn that energy towards academic writing! It really is like an imposing wall, just looming over me in this very domineering and impregnable fashion.
Perhaps it is all in my head. I feel like my thoughts are bouncing in 100 different directions. We shall see where this leads us (because each of my thoughts has become a person, turning me, into a collective we).
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