Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Monday, May 13, 2024
Concurrent Projects
I have four concurrent projects, two of which I've already announced:
1- a memoir about my time with my grandmother
2- a family album
(https://afarinrava.blogspot.com/2024/04/unexpected-part-one.html
&
https://afarinrava.blogspot.com/2024/04/unexpected-part-two.html)
I'll announce the other two shortly...
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Douglas Coupland
“Dimanchophobia:
Fear of Sundays, not in a religious sense but rather, a condition that reflects fear of unstructured time. Also known as acalendrical anxiety. Not to be confused with didominicaphobia, or kyriakephobia, fear of the Lord's Day.
Dimanchophobia is a mental condition created by modernism and industrialism. Dimanchophobes particularly dislike the period between Christmas and New Year's, when days of the week lose their significance and time blurs into a perpetual Sunday. Another way of expressing dimanchophobia might be "life in a world without calendars." A popular expression of this condition can be found in the pop song "Every Day is Like Sunday," by Morrissey, in which he describes walking on a beach after a nuclear way, when every day of the week now feels like Sunday.”
Douglas Coupland
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Podcasts, Writers?
So many podcasts for writers pop up online...
https://www.waveapps.com/freelancing/top-writing-podcasts
Friday, May 10, 2024
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Friedrich Nietzsche
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Abstract
I've often written about abstract words having different definitions depending on cultures and perceptions, but today I want to write about the word abstract.
The word abstract has various meanings depending on the part of speech. It has one meaning as an adjective, another as a noun, and another as a verb... although some of these definitions might overlap as well:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abstract
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