Day: August 4, 2016

Edify

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Merriam-Webster
WORD OF THE DAY
August 4, 2016
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edify Audio pronunciation
verb | ED-uh-fye
Definition
:
to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift; also : enlighten, inform
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“Reading Lawrence, I am amazed and edified by the raw emotional intensity of his characters. I’m looking for ways to internalize this rich, untamed emotion and try to impart something of it to the characters who come to life in my keyboard.”
— A. B. Yehoshua, quoted in The New York Times Book Review, 16 June 2016
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Did You Know?
The Latin noun aedes, meaning “house” or “temple,” is the root of aedificare, a verb meaning “to erect a house.” Generations of speakers built on that meaning, and by the Late Latin period, the verb had gained the figurative sense of “to instruct or improve spiritually.” The word eventually passed through Anglo-French before Middle English speakers adopted it as edifyduring the 14th century. Two of its early meanings, “to build” and “to establish,” are now considered archaic; the only current sense of edify is essentially the same as that figurative meaning in Late Latin, “to instruct and improve in moral and religious knowledge.”
Examples of EDIFY
“Reading Lawrence, I am amazed and edified by the raw emotional intensity of his characters. I’m looking for ways to internalize this rich, untamed emotion and try to impart something of it to the characters who come to life in my keyboard.”
— A. B. Yehoshua, quoted in The New York Times Book Review, 16 June 2016
“He said he hopes the group takes away the community they began to build, so they can unify and edify each other to do the work of recovery.”
— Taylor Stuck, The Herald-Dispatch (Huntington, West Virginia), 15 May 2016

When we begin

When we begin the slow descent  to age
From that peak or maximum of strength
We notice nothing as it has no length
So feel no need to cry or scream in rage
When we begin.

The ” writing on the wall” is on the page.
The well off sink in angst, the workless tense;
We’ve lost our youth, our mind looks for defence
Then we begin the slow descent  of age.
Then we begin.

The music that we hum is  a slow dirge
An elegy falls from every pen to page
I do not  feel it’s good that we should rage
But gently take the  shroud of silk or serge
As in the living earth we all shall merge.
Then life begins again

 

 

Poincare, a human bee

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http://www.storyofmathematics.com/19th_poincare.html
Henri Poincaré

Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)

Poincaré deliberately cultivated a work habit that has been compared to a bee flying from flower to flower. He observed a strict work regime of 2 hours of work in the morning and two hours in the early evening, with the intervening time left for his subconscious to carry on working on the problem in the hope of a flash of inspiration. He was a great believer in intuition, and claimed that “it is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover”

Minister for Reign

Theresa May
Went to say
Tougher than man
I’ll drop that bomb.

Boris is Foreign
Minister for rain.
If it pours
Shut the door.

Owen Smith
Who’s he with?
I never heard of him
Should I be scared of him?

Jeremy Corbyn
Needs  a new warning
Socialism’s out?
What is Labour about?

Political animals
Are often criminals
No-one can jail ’em
And no-one can play with ’em

 

As false as Vietnam

  • As false as Vietnam
    As good as they come
  • As happy as  the very
  • As comic as the day  he  was stung,
  • As corny as a ribald tomcat,
  • Massive!What if?
  • As green as  man-made custard.Bird’s try!
  • Lost out?Then  pluck could save you.
  • As many  calls as a  pioneers’ phone book,
  • So old,yet he fused with her
    So cold but was amused by her.
  • As divine as the rose of your grace
  • As fine as the clothes we misplaced
    As misaligned as the books on the page
  • Displeased  by hunch, he drowned her horrors.

The referendum

David Cameron
Got a hammering
The referendum
Sorta bent him.

Boris Johnson
Always wants some
Maybe women
Keep ’em coming
Maybe power
He’s missed the hour.
Two roads diverged
Gove emerged
Stabbed Boris’ back
Went off track.
Gove is  finished
Boris diminished

Too much light

Too much light blinds  eyes that outward gaze
We cannot see, like Paul on Tarsus Road.
The mystery ‘s inherent in the  code.
When we come to parting of the ways
Too much light blinds.

Not a choice of two roads but a maze
With no sat nav or answer to download
Where shall we be at the ending of  the  days?
What mystery,what horror  may unfold
As we stumble through the  rubble, by fear crazed
Too much light blinds

 

 
As  with the whores of Babylon we laze
Don’t we feel a touch of icy cold?
Has the   winsome moon become too bold?
Armageddon beckons , who obeys?
Too much light blinds

 

 

As being Catholic was a sin

Good Queen Bess
Felt a bit of regret
As she beheaded her cousin
And another  few dozen.

Queen Mary burned
Heretics spurned
So was Jesus  pleased
As they   crackled and wheezed.
Burning our foes
Brings further woes.

The Hanoverians were brought in
As being Catholic was a sin
Claimants to the  throne
Have had life postponed.

Queen Victoria had sex
When dear Albert was vexed
So  she provoked him each day
As she sure liked to play.
Their children ruled Europe
Until no one could endure it
The Kaiser made war
And irritated the Tsar.
Empires laid waste
Jews were deemed base.
These studious good  folk
Later sent up in smoke.
God read the  signs
And black was his mind.
Jesus loved sinners
So are the Nazis  the winners?
It’s bloody confusin’
And   negates amusin’
Original sin
Can we  ever try again?