a meme, and I'm off...
Apr. 29th, 2006 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauraanne_gilmanThis is how it works: Comment on this entry and get a letter, if you want a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter, including an explanation of what the word means to you and why.
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scarlettina slapped me with an "S"
1. Snark: the fine art of being bitchy and witty at the same time. Harder than it sounds, and, like punning, not for the well-mannered or delicate.
2. Snapple: Diet lemon snapple, the fluid my body runs on in the summer.
3. Sex: So long as everyone's consenting and of legal age, and the goat's gotten a clean bill of health, it's a beautiful thing.
4. Sunshine: I hate it, and yet I crave it. My mood is absolutely solar-powered, I am much happier for indirect sunlight and the upswing it brings.
5. Sue: My middle sister, Suzanne Beth. All the Gilman girls have three syllables to their name: my mom's way of ensuring a cool-down period while she bellowed for us after we did something Bad...
6. Silk: There is absolutely nothing like a length of quality silk; not in the way it feels, the way it moves, the way it takes and reflects colors. Just lovely.
7. Sunrise: the experience of being awake at sunrise, especially near a body of water, is one that's close to religious for me. Or maybe that's just the sleep-deprivation. Whatever, it's a sense of majesty and glory coming to the day, and makes memories I cherish.
8. Sunset: Again, especially over water. Less religious and more sensual, maybe because there's usually food and drink involved. Sundowning (the fine art of doing nothing but sipping a drink and watching the sun go down) is an old Gilman Family Tradition while on vacation.
9. Sensual: Sensual is a different beast from sexual -- it's about the appreciation of the physical world, using all of your senses to soak in a moment and indulge in it. I am, absolutely, a sensualist, and unapologetic about it.
10. Smile: I smile a lot. I like to smile. And no, it's not always just to bare my teeth at someone. If you smile at someone, especially a little kid, they will smile back. Sometimes they'll even giggle. Smiles are scientifically proven to make both the recipient and the sender feel better, and it doesn't cost you a thing except a few muscle movements, and eventual laugh-lines. What, in this world, can be a better thing to do?
And now, off to The City -- going to play some poker, then see the Darwin exhibit at the Museum of Natural History. Is it research? Everything's research, children. Play nice while I'm gone!
scarlettina slapped me with an "S"1. Snark: the fine art of being bitchy and witty at the same time. Harder than it sounds, and, like punning, not for the well-mannered or delicate.
2. Snapple: Diet lemon snapple, the fluid my body runs on in the summer.
3. Sex: So long as everyone's consenting and of legal age, and the goat's gotten a clean bill of health, it's a beautiful thing.
4. Sunshine: I hate it, and yet I crave it. My mood is absolutely solar-powered, I am much happier for indirect sunlight and the upswing it brings.
5. Sue: My middle sister, Suzanne Beth. All the Gilman girls have three syllables to their name: my mom's way of ensuring a cool-down period while she bellowed for us after we did something Bad...
6. Silk: There is absolutely nothing like a length of quality silk; not in the way it feels, the way it moves, the way it takes and reflects colors. Just lovely.
7. Sunrise: the experience of being awake at sunrise, especially near a body of water, is one that's close to religious for me. Or maybe that's just the sleep-deprivation. Whatever, it's a sense of majesty and glory coming to the day, and makes memories I cherish.
8. Sunset: Again, especially over water. Less religious and more sensual, maybe because there's usually food and drink involved. Sundowning (the fine art of doing nothing but sipping a drink and watching the sun go down) is an old Gilman Family Tradition while on vacation.
9. Sensual: Sensual is a different beast from sexual -- it's about the appreciation of the physical world, using all of your senses to soak in a moment and indulge in it. I am, absolutely, a sensualist, and unapologetic about it.
10. Smile: I smile a lot. I like to smile. And no, it's not always just to bare my teeth at someone. If you smile at someone, especially a little kid, they will smile back. Sometimes they'll even giggle. Smiles are scientifically proven to make both the recipient and the sender feel better, and it doesn't cost you a thing except a few muscle movements, and eventual laugh-lines. What, in this world, can be a better thing to do?
And now, off to The City -- going to play some poker, then see the Darwin exhibit at the Museum of Natural History. Is it research? Everything's research, children. Play nice while I'm gone!
