I love words and sometimes I have too many. Or at least it's been suggested that could be the case so I've decided to share them with my greater circle of friends—yep, that's you. And here's your advantage…you can turn me off. (My husband Les has been looking for my off-button for years!)
Every month I will suggest a word to keep our vocabularies flowing. There's nothing like throwing a word into the mix of our daily conversations, that's unexpected, to freshen interest. We are people of habit so even though we may know many words we tend to rely on the same ones to convey our thoughts and soon those closest to us no longer hear us as thoroughly as they once did. Tossing in a new batch of expressions can recreate interest. So let's give it a try.
Web Word for September:
Diaphanous... "di-aph-a-nous";
I’ve seen this word before. It was like a whisper in a quiet room, but if you had challenged me to define it clearly I would have struggled. I probably would have guessed it had something to do with Cinderella. Un, huh, Cinderella.
Actually that’s close. In a way. You see diaphanous means light, delicate, translucent...like Cinderella’s ball gown. Remember how its delicate layers gently rustled as she waltzed with the prince and how it sparkled flecks of light? Yes, yes it was definitely diaphanous.
I sometimes imagine that angels are diaphanous. Don’t you? With gossamer wings and a shimmering glow.
Really shouldn’t we be? Not shimmering but noticeably different. This is a brutal, dark, hard world and we are called to be it’s dichotomy: light-bearing, with delicate in our treatment of others, and translucent in the sense of honesty and vulnerability.
Perhaps that’s the perfect word for ones obituary. One who has walked kindly, responded gently, and invested humbly in other...She/He was diaphanous.
I like that...a lot.
Toodles, Patsy
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