Light Heart
This week's dictionary is my dear old friend, the Heinemann English,
which I received as a study aid in the year 1981. After Skeat's 1894 this seems
rather modern, but Skeat has only been on my shelf for 10 years or so:
Heinemann has 33 years of shared history. I can't remember when it lost the
front cover. One day I will do some binding repairs, and I will keep it organic
because I might take this one to my grave. And the first word it gives me is light-hearted adjective: while outside the
sun is shining, the birds in full voice, the air has a feeling in it, a vibrant
buzz, like someone has tapped the side of a cosmic crystal with a spoon of
heavenly metal. Light-hearted has a Word Family; light-heartedly, adverb, light-heartedness, noun; such a lovely
concept. Sun floods the moor tops: I have an urge to wander out to Feather Tor
today, floating some floral print on a fine breeze. Back from the walk I will
buy an ice cream from the little van, sit in the car with the windows wound
down while a muddied Dog lolls and the crowbirds hop.
Later this day: I did go to Feather Tor, wrapped in thermals and woollen
hat (to help shift an earache) and ate an ice cream whilst walking, slowly,
gazing at ponies.
What a beautiful life!
ReplyDeleteGood for you for putting to rest the nonsense 'You can't take it with you'. I laughed at your taking the 33 year old reference book to the grave. Good for you as well, for your light-heartedness in the afternoon at Feather Tor floating some floral print on the fine breeze...love that!
ReplyDeleteSue at CollectInTexas Gal
Especially like the pony picture. It's like they're creating a geometric gap in their line of shadows, upon which a fourth pony will appear. Something in the observer always expects magic, I guess.
ReplyDeleteI am a teensy bit blessed eh?
ReplyDeleteIf one of the children/grandchildren takes a shine to the dictionary then maybe I will go to ground without it (or into the viking funeral pyre, or weighted to the ocean floor) but that's for the future to reveal (much later, I hope!)
Dagnabbit Geo- later there were FOUR PONIES!! Which must be how they successfully reproduce in such an exposed environment...