Sunday, April 15, 2007

FAVORITE WORDS

This idea came from the Word-Art gallery show I was privileged to participate in with Carla Kurt this weekend. Two women named Margaret Wilson and Barbara Rau, in their own words, "devised an evil and genius plan and emailed everyone they knew, well abunch of people they knew, asking for their favorite words and in fact, inviting them to include a sentence using some or even all of the words. As it turned out, some people who you might actually think are your friends are actually very parsimonious about sharing their favorite words, while others proved to be generous with their floods of words both mundane and magnificent."

Hmmm. Some of my favorite words are generosity, destiny, bulolic, lugubrious, and 'friends with benefits'. These are words I enjoy using and hearing. Generosity makes me feel good about myself, destiny reminds me the world is bigger than my view of it, lugubrious stirs up a sad longing, friends with benefits makes me laugh, bulolic transports me to the country. Words create their own magic.

I like the idea of sharing and pooling words into its own creation. ! I hope you do too! So please join me in the following collective creative cautiously corny collaboration:

1. Share one or more of your favorite words

2.This part is optional: Include a sentence(s) with your favorite word(s) in it.

3. I will do my best to compile the words and sentences into a poem or essay or whatever.

So how about it? Send me your favorite words and let me have a go of it. I'll be checking your comments for the next few days and hopefully, before I head to Colorado next week, we'll have a poem to chuckle over.

11 comments:

  1. My favorite words:

    Mother
    Father
    husband
    child
    sister or brother
    love
    safe
    peace
    happy
    healthy
    friend
    toys
    delicious
    soft
    warm
    money

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  2. This is like an exquisite corpse poem! I have so mnay words I love... I'm going to mull it over and get back to you. Oh.. I do like:

    mull
    lugubrious (my son used to ask me for vocabulary words when he was a little kid, and this was one that he took to right away. He'd walk around saying, "lugubrious - sad and mournful," and then laugh!)
    incandescent
    sweetheart

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  3. Difficult for me, because if I give you my favorite Dutch words, the translation is not always exactly the same. But I will try these ones: sisterhood, happiness, health, thanks, kindness, honesty, beauty, chinaware, glass, flowers, dogs, garden, chocolate, neat and tidy, talking, things to share.

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  4. Ah, I like this. I really do.

    Visionary
    Visual
    Art
    Light
    Honesty
    Children
    Friendship
    Love
    Annie

    A visionary sees further than the eye can reach. I guess an artist must be a visionary. In an art like photography light is everything. I try to be honest all the time, honesty is one of my personal values. Children are sacred to me, you don't hurt a child. Friendship and love are both very important, I realize that there isn't really a difference between the two, not when you can speak of a real, deep friendship. But I love Annie.

    So how did I do? Did I pass the test (joke)? This was much easier that I though.
    The Colorado river could be one of my favourite things, you know. I have some photos that I took of the Colorado a long time ago.
    I wish I was going to Colorado :-)

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  5. Now you have me on a roll!
    peace, love and ~ lull-a-byes~ fairytales~ auras~ dreams ~ roadtrips ~ butterflies ~ borrowed wings ~ blessed ~ hurricanes~ the moon ~ whisper ~ breathe~ tink!

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  6. Great idea, KJ! I can't wait to see what you come up with.

    Alacrity
    Investigative

    "You've taken to investigative research with great alacrity!"

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  7. Some of my favorites:

    sprightly
    lovely
    puppy
    cheers
    breathtaking

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  8. This week I am in OBs ..I try to learn and rediscover a couple of words in the Dic every week and these all sound like some kind of disease or medical condition!

    obfuscate:
    to bewilder or confuse
    obdurate:
    unyielding in opinion
    obliquity:
    departure from sound moral principles or behavior
    obsequious:
    self abasing
    obstreperous:
    resisting and defiant

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  9. my favorite words:

    faith
    warmth
    darling

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  10. It was perfect she purred. Honey, that's my favourite word he said. Those are two sentences containing a few of my faves. Loved reading this post and also the one above. Just email me when you get back from your trip (i will give you my #) and have a swell time! Hey that's another word i love...

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  11. My favourite words...
    Amazing
    Dream
    Love
    Life
    Higglety-Pigglety

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