What it Is

I have proven myself a failure at being consistent. Methinks this should be a place for me. Maybe not the collected me that makes sense. More like the me that likes to be. To wonder, to plan, to think, to understand. I want to write everyday. It is my hope that this is the blog that will facilitate that goal.

I dont make any promises. You could still call this my creative blog. But I'd like to think of it more as the debris that is left behind after all the normal thoughts blow through my consciousness.

Don't expect it to always make sense or be worth your time. I think the main goal if for it to be my sanity.

Mottled Light

Mottled Light
the way my mind feels sometimes, waiting for a breakthrough.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Entry Eighty-Seven

Tangible Nouns Intangible Nouns
Plate Fear
Tissue Anguish
Rope Hunger
Bowl Desire
Blanket Want
Sock Energy
House Love
Note Harmony
Clock Beauty
Mountain Understanding
Ocean Thought
Desert Excitement
Forest Foreboding
River Laughter
Stone Pain
Dirt Disquiet
Book Respect


So here is what I am going to do (or rather, this is what the writing exercise suggested I do).

I've made a list of tangible nouns and intangible nouns, as you can see. I wrote them all on little slips of paper and put them in two different piles. I drew one word from each pile and make phrases out of the. If you feel so inclined, add a couple of your own in the comments section!

1. A stone of love as in he/she felt the first stone of love sink to the bottom of his/her stomach.

2. A forest of hunger or maybe hungry as a forest? So far these aren't turning out as good as I hoped. But there are still many to go.

3. A bowl of harmony. I kind of like this one. You gotta eat yourself a big ol' bowl of harmony every morning to get you through the day!

4. A flower of beauty or a flowering beauty. This one is kind of unoriginal. But still nice.

5. A blanket of desire. I like this one. Especially if you think of a blanket as not a literal blanket but an object that covers and distorts everything else, as desire can. Especially when it is confused with love.

6. A rope of understanding. Hm...this one is tricky. I'm not sure I see it.

And now, here is how they are presented side by side in columns.

A plateful of fear or a fearful plate
A tissue of anguish or an anguished tissue
Ropes of hunger or a hungry rope
A bowl full of desire or a desire to bowl
A blanket of want or a wanting blanket
A sock full of energy or and energetic sock
A house of love or a lovely house
A note of harmony or a harmonious note
A clock of beauty or a beautiful clock
A mountain of understanding or an understanding mountain
An ocean of thought or a thoughtful ocean
A desert of excitement or an exciting desert
A forest of foreboding or a forbodeing forest
A river of laughter or a laughing river
A stone of pain or a painful stone
Dirty disquiet or disquieting dirt
A book of respect or a respectful book

Even better are how they match up offset by one on the list starting with fear and tissue

A fear tissue or a tissue of fear
A rope of anguish or an anguished rope
A bowl of hunger or a hungry bowl
A blanket of desire has already been mentioned.
A sock full of want and thats all I have
A house of energy or an energetic house
A note of love or a lovely note
A clock of harmony or a harmonious clock
A mountain of beauty (is not original)
An ocean of understanding
A desert of thought or a thoughtful desert
A forest of excitement or an exciting forest
A river of foreboding or a foreboding river
A stone of laughter or a laughing stone
Dirty pain or painful dirt
A book of disquiet or a disquieting book
And finally we have a plateful of r-e-s-p-e-c-t (I know what it means to me) or a respectful plate

Well there it is. A writing excercise that I exhausted. I hope you are all as bored here at the end of it as I am. Actually, the only reason I am posting thing is because I am NOT going to delete another post before posting it.

This will be posted and the only person who might read it is my mother. So mom, I hope you had fun.