Day: Nov 11, 2017
Short eared Durham owl
Short-eared Durham owl meditating over the dale's edge, shadows the fields and folds in elegant diurnal flight. On windside,careful sight may swoop to prey and away. Your yellow broad-eyed look, at once both sharp and distant, holds me. Oh,silence, Oh,wind on green, Oh, earth, Sky. Immense your held vision, sphere without centre, pied geometer of flight, sketch your descent and ascent. Trees bunched by dry stone wall call heart home.
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A & E tonight
1,Mrs Smith: accidentally pulled off the cat’s tail while cooking a chicken which the cat had caught.Unsure if A & E would treat cats.Accepted.
2.Mr Smith: collapsed with unstable angina after seeing his cat with no tail.Solution, persuaded him it was a Manx cat until we found the appropriate glue.Cat OK.Man still wobbly
3 Angela Smith aged 14.Drunk and disorderly because of swigging brandy on seeing a hallucinatory cat’s tail flying about.Admitted to Donald Winnicott Real Self Unit N.78
Expected to become real within 4 years if held correctly.Ironical as it was not a real hallucination.No vocabulary exists which can be understood by nurses with Master’s Degrees to give the right label for believing Reality is a a mere Hallucination personal to one’s self.
4 Jack Smith: fell down the stairs as an attention seeking action.Broke all his fingernails but otherwise seems quite normal considering the rest of the family
signed: K.Settlement Ph.D [Bad language]
University College,Watford-on-Sea. [2004]
M A {Oxon}1991.Dissertation:On symmetry in differential operators {Failed}
M Sc.{ Watford] 2000 [How to change light bulbs with one hand using Newton’s laws of motion} [ almost managed to fail]
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The coal and coke had tattooed her, we knew.
The summer heat made cobblestones like stoves
The Coronation happened, I know now
We played with melted tar, industrial wains.
My mother’s hands were black and much beloved
The coal and coke had tattooed her, we knew.
The summer heat made cobbles hot as stoves.
In the road, we played our ancient games
The older children passed the knowledge down
We played with melted tar, industrial wains.
The bully boys were cruel , did not heed love
A little boy had tried to be a clown
In summer heat, they beat him on the stones.
We were silent as they flaunted power again;
But in our hearts, we knew we’d let him down
We threw warn melted tar, industrial wains
And in our phantasy, he was alone.
Noone knew who threw the vicious stone
The summer heat made cobbles feel like flames
We played with melted tar, Christ died again
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Kierkegaard
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What is irony?
https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/irony-satire-sarcasm/irony
Reserve irony for situations where there’s a gap between reality and expectations, especially when such a gap is created for dramatic or humorous effect.
In Greek, eiron meant a dissembler — someone who hides their true intentions. Today, we do something very similar when we employ irony, often by saying the opposite of what we really mean. The word can also refer to a situation that turns out to be amusingly different from what we expected: “I thought he had stolen the Fig Newtons, but the irony was that he thought the same thing of me.” Note that this is more than just an improbable coincidence!
Primary Meanings of irony
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incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
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witty language used to convey insults or scorn
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Full Definitions ofirony
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n incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
“the irony of Ireland’s copying the nation she most hated”
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- Socratic irony
admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone’s inconsistencies by close questioning
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- incongruity, incongruousness
the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
na trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
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- dramatic irony
(theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play
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- figure, figure of speech, image, trope
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
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Irony,satire and sarcasm explained
The famous catalogue
Some days I remember that old job
Long hours and low pay and nothing good
Working for a well known catalogue
A man came round as nasty as a frog
He shouted,faster,stupid women,are you wood?
Sometimes I remember that old job
If we had to pee, they kept a log
Seemed as if they wanted guts and blood
Working for a cruel catalogue
The men were bosses at the old golf club
They thought that they were wonders as they trod
I don’t need reminding of that job
This was long before I had a blog
No-one knew those sacrilegious pigs
Working for mail order catalogues
I nearly lost my mind ,maybe I did
Sinking very slowly in the mud
Even now I shudder at that job
Working for a famous catalogue
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Stop smoking
I asked my boyfriend to stop smoking so he went outside threw himself into the old bath full of rainwater.When the flames died down he got out and asked me what I thought
I said, I meant the cigarette, not you.~
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I see your face
To be my friend, respect my sacred space
Do not conquer me, we’re not at war.
Knowing this, we both receive kind grace
Love, not power, is shared by an embrace
Without this care, we will not come near
To being friends, respecting sacred space
To love and gaze upon one holy face
To be accepted without selfish fears
To know all this, is in itself a grace.
To be connected, loving is a state.
We must respect, be near but not too near.
Becoming friends makes a new sacred space.
The first and also last is each dear face
Where we gaze, deciphering what endured
To realise this, is in itself a grace
So life itself diseased, seeks out a cure
If we ignore what glitters, what allures
To be my friend, respect my sacred space
I am me, myself , let us save face
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Evoke
evoke
ɪˈvəʊk/
verb
verb: evoke; 3rd person present: evokes; past tense: evoked; past participle: evoked; gerund or present participle: evoking
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1.bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind.“the sight evoked pleasant memories of his childhood”
synonyms: bring to mind, call to mind, put one in mind of, call up, conjure up, summon up, summon, invoke, give rise to, bring forth, elicit, induce, kindle, stimulate, stir up, awaken, arouse, excite, raise, suggest; More -
elicit (a response).“the Green Paper evoked critical reactions from various bodies”
synonyms: bring to mind, call to mind, put one in mind of, call up, conjure up, summon up, summon, invoke, give rise to, bring forth, elicit, induce, kindle, stimulate, stir up, awaken, arouse, excite, raise, suggest; More
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2.invoke (a spirit or deity).“Akasha is evoked in India when a house is being built to ensure its completion”
synonyms: bring to mind, call to mind, put one in mind of, call up, conjure up, summon up, summon, invoke, give rise to, bring forth, elicit, induce, kindle, stimulate, stir up, awaken, arouse, excite, raise, suggest; More
Origin
early 17th century (in sense 2): from Latin evocare, from e- (variant of ex- ) ‘out of, from’ + vocare ‘to call’.
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Stay well by being creative
“We need to remind ourselves that creativity can be as simple as playing or doing things differently, so that we give ourselves permission to open the door to other activities and usher in all the benefits that come with this – from time to reflect or overcoming perfectionism to communicating or simply having fun. In this way, building sandcastles or writing witty emails can be a gateway to a pottery class or keeping a journal or writing a poem.
Imagination and inventiveness should be for everyone. If we let go of the idea that artists are somehow “other” and that we can only access that part of ourselves when under pressure, we could all be more creative.
The Taste of Blue Light by Lydia Ruffles is published by Hodder
How my heart speaks 