Wardrobe Advice

Don’t complain 

about the autumn weather 

while you’re wearing 

summer clothes.

[LSS, 10/20/20]

Diagonal Lines: An Abecedarian of Ways

almanac, allegory, abecedarian (of course)

book of days, bible, box cars (on track or derailed)

correspondence, commonplace, conversation

diary, dialog, diatribe

ephemera, ephemeris, equation

folium, folio, forces centrifugal and/or centripetal

gifts, gaffes, giveaways

hieroglyphs, hyperboles, hellos

incantations, illustrations, imaginaria

journal, junk drawer, jabberwocky

keenings, kindling, kitsch

letters, leeches, lean-tos 

missives, missiles, mono no aware

notes, notations, negations

ohs, oohs, oomphs

psalms, poems, postcards

queries, questions, quasars

run ons, runoff, rhyme and/or reason (or neither)

syllabi, saijiki, somnambulations

transmissions, transmutations, transmogrifications

ties in a track, the train itself

umbrellas, umbrages, ululations

visions, visages, violations

word play, warp, weft

x rays, xenia, X (the unknown)

Y (also unknown), yearnings, yens

Z (a third unknown for the complex equation), zener cards, zeitgeists

[LSS, 10/20/20]