Two Adjectives
Because it seemed like a good conversation sparker, I asked everybody at dinner last night what their two adjectives would be ...
B: generous & hardworking
DJ Rye: eccentric & fair
Yo: easygoing & thoughtful (and by thoughtful she means off in her own world)
Mrs. D: protective & patient
Mum: giving & caring
Amy: creative & depressant
Larry: ??????
Dad: constant & saving (and by saving he means saving money)
Most likely, I can't remember Larry's because I don't know him well enough to see the words as more than mere words ... I wish I did ...
Of course, for mine, I mostly stick to arbitrary and whimsical, although yesterday another very appropriate adjective suggested itself to me, and that was hapless (and by hapless I mean clumsy)
Sometimes I wish I was graceful. Like Grace Kelly. Of course, the only time in my whole life anybody has ever called me graceful is when I expressed at dinner once how I wanted to be called graceful at least once in my life, and Yance said, 'Ya know, Sarah, if there's one thing I've always thought about you, it's that your graceful.'
Of course, grace is pretty much a superficial adornment and it may, in fact, play into stereotypical and useless notions of female perfection ... at any rate, I think given the choice, I'd spring for (no pun intended) athleticism over grace any day.
Quick would also be a really good thing to be. It suggests nimbleness both of body and of mind. Catlike movements. Long, lean thoughts.
B: generous & hardworking
DJ Rye: eccentric & fair
Yo: easygoing & thoughtful (and by thoughtful she means off in her own world)
Mrs. D: protective & patient
Mum: giving & caring
Amy: creative & depressant
Larry: ??????
Dad: constant & saving (and by saving he means saving money)
Most likely, I can't remember Larry's because I don't know him well enough to see the words as more than mere words ... I wish I did ...
Of course, for mine, I mostly stick to arbitrary and whimsical, although yesterday another very appropriate adjective suggested itself to me, and that was hapless (and by hapless I mean clumsy)
Sometimes I wish I was graceful. Like Grace Kelly. Of course, the only time in my whole life anybody has ever called me graceful is when I expressed at dinner once how I wanted to be called graceful at least once in my life, and Yance said, 'Ya know, Sarah, if there's one thing I've always thought about you, it's that your graceful.'
Of course, grace is pretty much a superficial adornment and it may, in fact, play into stereotypical and useless notions of female perfection ... at any rate, I think given the choice, I'd spring for (no pun intended) athleticism over grace any day.
Quick would also be a really good thing to be. It suggests nimbleness both of body and of mind. Catlike movements. Long, lean thoughts.