Callow

 

adjective | KAL-oh

 

Callow is a synonym of immature used to describe someone, especially a young person, who does not have much experience and does not know how to behave like an adult. Like the word immature, callow is often used disapprovingly.

 This meaning of callow links the word directly to its origin, the Old English word calu, meaning “bald,” and to today’s more common use in describing someone possessed of youthful naiveté.

 Calu eventually fledged into callow with the same “bald, hairless” meaning, but was applied to bald land too—that is, land denuded of vegetation or not producing it in the first place.

By the 16th century, callow had expanded beyond the literal sense of “lacking hair or flora” to its avian use of “lacking feathers” as well as to today’s familiar application to people. Callow now is most often used to suggest the inexperience or immaturity of young people brimming with confidence but still, figuratively, unfledged.

lethargic

 In Greek mythology, Lethe was the name of a river in the underworld that was also called "the River of Unmindfulness" or "the River of Forgetfulness." Legend held that when someone died, they were given a drink of water from the river Lethe to forget all about their past life. Eventually this act of forgetting came to be associated with feelings of sluggishness, inactivity, or indifference. The name of the river and the word lethargic, as well as the related noun lethargy, all come from lēthē, Greek for "forgetfulness."

In Greek mythology, Lethe was the name of a river in the underworld that was also called "the River of Unmindfulness" or "the River of Forgetfulness." Legend held that when someone died, they were given a drink of water from the river Lethe to forget all about their past life. Eventually this act of forgetting came to be associated with feelings of sluggishness, inactivity, or indifference. The name of the river and the word lethargic, as well as the related noun lethargy, all come from lēthē, Greek for "forgetfulness."

Take a break.....

Respite traces from the Latin term respectus (also the source of English's respect, which comes from respicere, a verb with both concrete and abstract meanings: "to turn around to look at" or "to regard." Within a few decades of its earliest known use, English speakers had granted respite the sense we use most often today—"a welcome break."

There are something like 2 trillion galaxies.....

  

There are something like 2 trillion galaxies or in other words, two trillion 2000 billion galaxies and each Galaxy is around the size of Milky Way.

The Milky Way has 400 billion stars in it and would take over 100,000 years to cross. Most stars have planets. In our Galaxy there are anywhere between 800 billion to 3 trillion planets. Of that number, at least 300 million are potentially habitable.

Scientists are sure that the piece of the universe we can see is only fraction, a small fraction, of what’s out there but assume, based on research, that there are between 100 billion to 2 trillion galaxies in the universe, or, in other words, a billion trillion stars.

Beware

 

The art of war

 

He's right

 

Wouldn't you love to see the entire world in your lifetime?

 

Your tribe

 

Good words to have

  

Clandestine comes to English by way of Middle French, from the Latin word clandestinus, which is itself from the Latin adverb clam, meaning "secretly." Note that this clam is not the ancestor of the English word clam, despite how tightly sealed and thus secretive the bivalves may seem.

Sho "People empty me. I have to get away to refill." – Charles Bukowski

 

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul. #charles bukowski

 

Man Ray

 

Book lovers

 

I THINK its an actual photo

 

Photo Joe Clark

 

Ando Fuchs, Venecia

 

Toni Schneiders.

 

William M. Rittase - La Salle Street Station, Chicago

 

Youngsoo Han - Ruined Window, Seoul

 

On the Wing by Christina Rossetti

  

  

Once in a dream (for once I dreamed of you)

    We stood together in an open field;

    Above our heads two swift-winged pigeons wheeled,

Sporting at east and courting full in view:—

When loftier still a broadening darkness flew,

    Down-swooping, and a ravenous hawk revealed;

    Too weak to fight, too fond to fly, they yield;

So farewell life and love and pleasures new.

Then as their plumes fell fluttering to the ground,

    Their snow-white plumage flecked with crimson drops,

        I wept, and thought I turned towards you to weep:

    But you were gone; while rustling hedgerow tops

Bent in a wind which bore to me a sound

        Of far-off piteous bleat of lambs and sheep.

 

 

Bernstein House, 1978, Washington - Architecte Arthur Cotton Moore

George Bernard Shaw ‘s writing hut, built on a turntable so that he could move with the sunlight_

 

Supersede

 Supersede ultimately comes from the Latin verb supersedēre, meaning "to sit on top of" (sedēre means "to sit"), "to be superior to," or "to refrain from," but it came to English through Scots Middle English, where it was rendered superceden and used synonymously with defer. 

If every building in the world had this, wars would end, people would be silly.....think about it.

 

Sergio Larraín - Bar Los siete espejos, Valparaíso. 1963

 

Good words to have

 Amiable (AY-mee-uh-buhl)  Pleasant; friendly. From Latin amicus (friend), which also gave us amity, amicus curiae, amigo, inimical, and enemy.

I adore B&W: Jay Maisel, Men in New York Tavern, 1954

 

New idea

 

The well taught philosophic mind

  

The well taught philosophic mind

To all compassion gives;

 Casts round the world an equal eye,

/ And feels for all that lives.

 -Anna Laetitia Barbauld, poet, essayist, and editor (June 20, 1743-1825)

transgression (trans-GRESH-uhn) A violation of legal or moral boundaries. From Latin transgredi (to step beyond or across), from trans- (across) + gradi (to step), from gradus (step).

 

When a writers get a an idea for a plot twist

 

Writers

 

Different views

 

Love it

 

Writers schedule

 

Scenes

 

Waiting to be written

 

I love B&W

 

Beautiful: Glen Coe, Black Rock Cottage, Scotland

 

Don't you just want to travel the world? A medieval pathway in Calvi dell'Umbria, Italy

 

I Love B&W

By Henri Cartier-Bresson

Homer Sykes - On Brick Lane in 1970, London

Ingmar Bergman - 'The Seventh Seal' (1957)

Ruth Orkin - Dos mujeres en Roma