Jug Suraiya...

uses this unique word - 'factoid' to mean a manufactured fact

in:

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/jugglebandhi/entry/parlay_voo_france

Powerful words...

to describe a feeling of grief...or deep hurt or wound to the soul...

'The silent storm-swept barrenness...'

 ~  Howard Thurman in "Meditations of the Heart"

Chew over this...

from Olivia Goldsmith's 'Marrying Mom'...

Marital osmosis

Isn't it evocative? and thought provoking?

Again from Khaled Hosseini...

Talking to his mother whom he is seeing after ages.....after getting over the initial shock of seeing his mother aged, and with not much more time left, Dr Markos Varvaris says he worries about her. Her reply is characteristic of her: 'No need to. I can take care of myself all right.'

'But for how long,' asks he.

'As long as I can,' she says, and he comes back with, 'And when you can't, then what?'

----------------------I love the answer she gives. Here it is:

'It's a funny thing, Markos, but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.'

--------------------Powerful words by a woman who knows how she wants to live her life out...

From Khaled Hosseini's...

And the Mountains Echoed...

He uses these words so beautifully to show both the passing of time, and the simple everyday tasks that we tend to take for granted, but which added up are a tribute to our lives...

The long string of rituals that make up a lifetime.

The two words...

one must strive never to use...

HURRY UP

I have not been able to trace...

where I got this from....all I remember is that these words painted such a charming picture...I got lost in the picture, and clicked 'exit' by mistake.

I was studying about the Amish - a group of people whose lifestyle fascinates me. As I looked over the titles of their books, one caught my eye and I read the few lines that were on the page.

A very young couple was standing on a bridge leaning over the railings and looking at the water below. The girl had taken off her bonnet (Amish girls wear a kind of bonnet). She was swinging it by its ribbons when the bonnet slipped out of her hands and fell into the river. Her boyfriend offers to jump in and rescue it for she would need it when she went back home.

The words that captivated me come next -

The girl tells her boyfriend to let the bonnet be. 'Why should we deprive it of the adventures it is sure to have as it floats along the river....' (these are my words as I remember them...)

Can you just picture that??? What a beautiful thought.....what a gorgeous picture.....