Poramboke = land that belongs to the government.
As this word has something of a tribal connotation, I illustrate with a tribal picture, not necessarily pertaining to the same culture. Just a beautiful painting epitomizing traditions and stories any culture should cherish and preserve.
Art by Cheng Weidong.
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.
Hope is a wounded seagull
perched on a blue cliff
in mid storm.
It is the beautiful girl giving you a smile
and words that smell like midnight lilies.
Hope is the nadir
of this imperfect world.
Art by Christian Schloe.
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.
3D words are for when
the times are insane
and I proclame
I need one more picture
to show the same
love and patience
and yearn…
Given:
My blooming chart says Love is not Love
that could not resist the flowers to seed, bloom, bask in the moon, wither in the wind
and wait patiently in the ground more agains than springs…
A picture of the Love that surprises Time by Michael Cheval.
Preclude = to put a barrier before; to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede;
to keep from happening or arising; have the effect of preventing:
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He couldn’t be captured in a phrase
Or one hundred…
He was like no one,
He was like a foreign country
That you travelled through
Eerie landscapes and glistening lakes
Towards horizons
Camouflaged in mists
Precluding
Happiness
once felt
And dreamed about.
He was like a giant umbrella
In bright colors
Protective of winds and shadows
Bandaging unseen wounds
In tenderness and
Love.
Foreign country by Harald Sohlberg.
The law of diminishing returns = the principle that after a certain point more work, investment… produces smaller and smaller improvements or results.
As for me, at a certain point I reduce my input of SMILES as the output diminishes.
The quantity of English rests the same.
For my readers, clients and friends:
I regret to inform you that my poor sense of humour never diminishes.
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At the coalface = doing the work involved in a job, in real working conditions, rather than planning or talking about it.
The men and women at the coalface really understand the business.
So do I.
And every perfect day comes with new challenges.
…And the perfect nights are for pondering over your choices or basking in the silver moonlight…
Silver moonlight by John Atkinson Grimsaw.