Nowhither = to or toward no place.
“Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
Art by Rafal Olbinski.
Waft = to move lightly through the air.
“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon
Art – another magical illustrations by Christian Schloe.
Peter out = to gradually become smaller, quieter, etc. and then end.
“Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.”
– James M. Barrie
Art by Trina Schart Hyman for Peter Pan.
Dither = to delay taking actions because you are not sure about what to do.
“Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.”
– Robert Musil – author of The Man Without Qualities.
As fairytales got mentioned, I illustrate with Tim Kirk‘s art for the Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkien.
Juggernaut = something (such as a force, campaign, or movement) that is extremely large and powerful and cannot be stopped.
= a very large, heavy truck (chiefly British).
I know I have received a juggernaut of love. My endeavors are to give in return.
Art by Robert Finale.
Happy-go-lucky = not worried about anything.
Probably my word in English. Albeit there are problems to solve, situations, deadlines to meet, burning ideas to be put together…
Worrying doesn’t solve problems. Actions do.
And imagination.
Art by Michael Cheval.
Litmus test = something (such as an opinion about a political or moral issue) that is used to make a judgment about whether someone or something is acceptable.
Litmus test = a test in which a single factor (as an attitude, event, or fact) is decisive.
Faithfulness as beauty reflected is the litmus test for love.
Art by Vladimir Kush.
Hauberk = a tunic of chain mail worn as defensive armor from the 12th to the 14th century.
My hauberk protects me
of all the artwords
Created in the absence
of Love.
Art by Sergey Kustarev – Russian Realist painter born in 1973.
Daring = brave; willing to do dangerous or unusual things; involving danger or taking risks.
What is the most daring sentence in your CV?
Me: You can be whomever you want to be solely with the help of my words.
What is the most traditional?
Me: I am a teacher.
I am packaging my questions from the job interview course with a most daring piece of art, the illustration of the most daring concept of the century – The Black Swan – the Impact of the Highly Improbable ( by Nassim Nicholas Taleb).
Art by Sam Chivers.
Crowdsourcing = the act of giving tasks to a large group of people or to the general public, for example, by asking for help on the internet, rather than having tasks done within a company by employees.
Crowdsourcing means that work once done in-house, from design and research to customer support, can now be farmed out, cutting costs and tapping new expertise.
I bid you to partake into all the loveliness that a shiny day of May can offer!
Art by Joaquim Mir.