“Someday I’m going to write a book about our family!”— This writer as a defiant 16-year-old. “I look forward to reading it!” — Our beloved mother First, I haven’t drafted and posted new content for this blog since the end of October. The past three months have been a ch...
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains." -Henry David Thoreau, "Walden" "Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be...
The novel is about her recovery process in this famous mental health hospital in Slovenia. The literary representations of ecological events are analyzed from an ecolinguistic point of view; for instance, November alludes to darkness alongside sadness, whereas the season of summer to hope; the ...
He had something to crow about. He has his head in the clouds. He left no stone unturned. Here's mud in your eye. He's a chicken. He's a little wet behind the ears. He's a stick in the mud. He's a vegetable. He's a fruit. He's feeling his oats. He's pushing up the...
Audiences may hear the figure $1 trillion but almost ignore that figure because it is hard to visualize in their heads. So, how about using a time metaphor? “One dollar is one second in time. One trillion dollars is 32,000 years in seconds. Our National Debt is over $23 trillion, so...
The puzzle that has been the most- Talked about Pillar to Post.’ Quoted from the White Crow ‘Message ’of March 25th 1989 (Ref. 6 & 28) In June 1989, Colin Andrews organized thefirstsophisticated Crop Circle Surveillance Operation named‘White Crow’, at ‘Cheesefoot Head’ in Hampshire...
A history of metaphoric thinking about the body on this potent level of generality would include many images drawn from other arts and technology,notably architecture. Some metaphors are anti-explanatory,like the sermonizing,and poetic,notion enunciated by Saint Paul of the body as a temple. Som...
Dao de jing gives both explicit descriptions of the properties of water and of dao, offering rich contextual information about the two respectively. Water is explicitly described as sustaining the growth of 萬物wan wu “everything in the world” but will- ing to dwell at the lowest place...
Dark dance album about my personal journey of holding balance between being a good friend, parent, lover and dealing with grief and the dark temptations of life.
Third-party dialogue.Listening to what other characters say about them. You could establish a whole character before he even walks on the screen by what another character says about him. The power of third-person dialogue is that you tend to believe it more if someone else says something abou...