My Creatively Random Life

Just a few more days now and we'll have made it through.  Are you tired?  I don't think I will read a thing in May except for my book club book. My V book is Veiled Eyes by C.L. Bevill. A vivid waking dream of giant cypress trees dripping with Spanish moss haunts Anna St. Thais. The trees sit on a black lake that resembles a dark Louisiana bayou with an evocative aura. The dream includes the presence of a man who seems to know Anna all too well and a group of people with strange telepathic powers, sometimes called veiled eyes.  An orphan from Texas, she is on her way east to help out a friend when she encounters two terrifying things. Psychically, she begins to see and hear things through the eyes of an unknown individual, a man who knows more about her than she ever would have imagined. The second thing is that she has been kidnapped by a sociopathic trucker intent on making her his latest victim.  When she is rescued by Gabriel Bergeron, a member of t...

Now on to today's actual post. Vacillate Definition:  be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action. Sentence:   But the old Napoleon was no more; vacillating almost as if in partial catalepsy, murmuring empty phrases in quick, indistinct utterance, he refused to decide.             — William Milligan Sloane Vacuous Definition:  devoid of intelligence. Sentence:  Why had his brain and senses lain fallow all these months, a vacuous vegetation, an empty consciousness?             — Gilbert Parker Veracity Definition:  unwillingness to tell lies. Sentence:  Professionally speaking, lawyers have been called legal liars, but compared to stock manipulators they are walking examples of truth and veracity.             — Charles Clark Munn Verisimilitude Definition:  the appearance of truth; the quali...

I am a huge fan of things that are fun to say, (dinosaurs on spaceship anyone?) and one of my favorite fun to say words is verbatim.  Meaning using exactly the same words. Repeating your remarks verbatim is something your children are particularly talented at doing when you you wish they wouldn't.