FOOD FOR THOUGHT

POETRY IS THE RHYTHMICAL CREATION OF BEAUTY IN WORDS.

-Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet (1809-1849)

SAME SOUND, DIFFERENT SPELLING

ISLE- transitive verb

1. to make an isle of
2. to place on or as if on an isle

noun

1. Island; especially: islet 1

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

He who does good, for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward,
but is sure of both in the end.

-William Penn, English leader (1644-1718)

TODAY'S WORD

-AN
also -ian, -ean

1. one that is of or relating to

2. one skilled in or specializing in

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

-Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman (1898-1993)

CHANGES IN STORE

You will see some changes in this blog. I have been pondering about adding more things to Frappy for some time. I believe that I have a very creative and intelligent following and, therefore, I want to stimulate, create, and educate. Changes include biography, postings of readings and poetry recitations, essays, and prose to name a few. You will still get 'Food for Thought' and 'Today's Word' but more needs to to be added to keep things fresh.

I look forward to your comments, suggestions, critcisms, and opinions. Please don't afraid to criticize because I always feel that it gives me another way to look at things. Peace

Mocha

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

As the family goes, so goes the whole nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

-Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)

TODAY'S WORD

SUBTERFUGE

1. Deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade.

2. A deceptive device or stratagem.

POEM

A GOLDEN DAY

I found you and I lost you,
all on a gleaming day.
The day was filled with sunshine,
And the land was full of May.

A golden bird was singing
Its melody divine,
I found you and I loved you,
and all the world was mine.

I found you and I lost you,
All on a golden day,
But when I dream of you, dear,
It is always brimming May.

~Paul Laurence Dunbar

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him
how to fish and you feed him for a life time.

-Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher

TODAY'S WORD

NEE

1. Used to identify a woman by her maiden family name.

2. Originally or formerly called

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

-Florence Nightingale, English activist (1820-1910)

TODAY'S WORD

ANAPHORA

1. Repetition of a word or expression at the beginning
or sucessive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses
esp. for rheotorical or poetic effect

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things.
A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out
a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that
on stage.

-Cab Calloway, American musician (1907-1994)

TODAY'S WORD

OBLOQUY

1. A strongly condemnatory utterance: abusive language

2. The condition of one that is discredited: bad repute

TODAY'S WORD

PAN-

A combining form meaning; all (pantheism)

The union of all branches of a group (Pan-American)

TODAY'S WORD

SASHAY

Walk, glide, go
To strut or move in an ostentious or conspicious manner

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

-John Adams, American President (1735-1826)

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

A real book is not one that we read,
but one that reads us.

-W.H. Auden

TODAY'S WORD

INTERSTICE

1. A space that intervenes between things
esp: one between closely spaced things

A gap or break in something continuous