Gelid Pulchritude

WORDS ARE SEXY!!!!! I can’t deny it…there is something about a person having the ability to woo, engage, entice, seduce, articulate with words so that I can actually “see” what it is they are saying…that it a true gift. For someone to be a polymath-a person of wide ranging knowledge or a wordsmith – a skilled user of words…are characteristics that make me weak in the knees. This obsession with words was born out of my love of reading. It is the origin of a word, or how a word can be applied to both objects and the characteristics of a person is what I find fascinating.

“Hello 2013!”

2012 ~

In December of 2011 right before the New Year of 2012, I attended a “Fun-eral,” (as my kids call it, why be sad?), of a man I knew as, X’s dad and X’s husband when I was a child. He did not know me as the adult I had become and I did not know how he had lived his life. Yet, I attended out of respect for his family and my childhood friend. The room was filled, everyone spoke beautifully, everyone wore the appropriate “Fun-eral” clothing. When his wife spoke she said that they had many conversations in the last months and when asked what he wanted people to really get, he said, “Live and leave without regrets. Live and honor your inner light.” With the transition of 2011 into 2012, I created what I wanted to live into; Unbridled passion, love, adventure and freedom.

My week in photos