Eunoia is the shortest word in English containing all five vowels - and it means "beautiful thinking". It is also the title of Canadian poet Christian Bok's book of fiction in which each chapter uses only one vowel.
Bunch of wanna blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones.
Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Oct 30, 2008 5:48:19 pm PDT #7571 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Kat - Oct 30, 2008 6:00:38 pm PDT #7572 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Eunoia is so pretty! That would make a great kid name for one of those cruel but adventurous namers. IOW, not me.
I got coffee time with Kristin, though most of my time was spent wrangling a grubby baby.
I'm gonna get all of your saramegs in late November. Pthbbbt!
Now I'm catching up on the interwebs.
aurelia - Oct 30, 2008 6:01:13 pm PDT #7573 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Next week on ER... hunh?!
brenda m - Oct 30, 2008 6:04:24 pm PDT #7574 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
So, eunoiay where you're kind of stabbing at good thinking but maybe not all the way there? Because I can't let go of the "sometimes Y."
sarameg - Oct 30, 2008 6:06:12 pm PDT #7575 of 10001
Hah, and I get a whole bunches of people!
One of the german words I loved for a name beyond anything I can explain was Ihnen. Unfortunately, it means "them" which would be mean. But I love the sound of it (EEN-nehn.) There were a few other german and french ones I disremember.
§ ita § - Oct 30, 2008 6:13:01 pm PDT #7576 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Noah? Grubby? Unpossible.
I had a brief sadistic urge to name kids of mine names that mean the same thing as my name. Luckily moot.
I am so trying to convince myself not to go to the ER. I was just there!
aurelia - Oct 30, 2008 6:13:17 pm PDT #7577 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Eunoia
That's a fascinating challenge, but I'm not sure how much of that I could stand to read. I think I like some of the comments better than the excerpts. He does seem to have a point about the vowels having different personalities.
lori - Oct 30, 2008 6:17:25 pm PDT #7578 of 10001
aurelia - Oct 30, 2008 6:20:22 pm PDT #7579 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Kat, I'm glad the books arrived!
brenda m - Oct 30, 2008 6:22:20 pm PDT #7580 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Sometimes they kind of look dead. [ETA: the puppies] But real dogs are like that too when they're that kind of crashed out relaxed. Sometimes you have to poke them just to be sure.
(Oh god, I just remembered this. A few nights ago, Lucy was lying with her back leg (singular) tucked up underneath her so you couldn't see it and I totally kicked her to make her move because it freaked me out so much. I don't even feel bad about it.)