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What is on your mind? I love all type of topics and will talk about almost anything! So, what is happening with you lately? The Huntington Japanese Gardens, photo by Seabreeze |
| March 8, 2019 I am late posting today! I thought I would share about my ride on the Goodyear Blimp. My husband and I were out for a ride one afternoon near Carson, California in 1968 and thought we would go over and look a the Columbia Goodyear Blimp that was tethered at its station in Carson. It just happened that afternoon that the crew was out putting the blimp up for the night. We watched and then one of the crew came over to speak with us. And, as a small world department goes, my husband and the personnel of Goodyear just happen to know each other. In fact, the guy turned out to be one of the pilots of the blimp and invited my husband and myself to come back at a later date for a ride. We were thrilled! Back then, most of the passengers were purchased rides and many times were special VIPs, corporate personnel, or a dignitary. So, that following week I played hooky from work and we went up in the blimp. At that time, the Columbia was the blimp stationed on the West Coast, California. Riley (don't remember his full name) flew us over the ocean, Disneyland, Los Angles and what a site it was. We had good weather that day, I remember, and what was really cool was Riley let my husband sit in the co-pilot seat and play with the controls. Oh, did I forget to mention, Riley and my husband, Bruce were in the Air Force together! What was special is that once up, the blimp hovers at 1000 feet and is surprisingly quiet. We two, the pilot and one other lady and her son were the only ones flying that afternoon. So, you just never know what serendipity will come your way when going out for a ride! Seabreeze |
| March 6 & 7, 2019 My Blog sent me an email to nicely tell me I did not make an entry yesterday. Little does it know we had a major power failure and, I unfortunately lost my text. Dummy me thought, okay lights our out but I have my computer with battery backup so I will continue typing forgetting about the fact that the Internet was going down any minute! So, here we go, I will try to recreate what I wanted to do. I thought I would take a break from Meter and Foot and share a book I picked up several years ago. It is called, 2107 Curious Word Origins, Sayings and Expressions from White Elephants to Song & Dance by Charles Earle and Tom Funk. Now that is a mouth full don't you think? If you are my age (73) you might recognize the title but most like not. Original publishing date is 1948 with reissues in '50, '55, '58 and my copy being 1993. So, I am going to share a couple of jewels. To Be Hand In Glove: One very simple saying, "To be hand in glove". This referenced being on such terms of intimacy referring to a relationship of being almost of that of the glove to the hand. The use of the term dates back to 1678, but from those days and until late in the following century the phrase was "hand and glove", this form rarely being heard today. Bakelite: This one even shocked me as I remember Bakelite as a kid (1950's). Bakelite was used to make radios (case), various thinks as today we would call hard plastic. Also, those gals whole may be into costume jewelry will probably know about Bakelite, as pins, bracelets or brooches were made with Bakelite. However, the man, Lee Hendrik Baekeland was a chemist and an inventor who in 1899 emigrated to the United States. Engaging in industrial research, his earliest invention was Velox, a type photographic paper. However, he is most remembered for his invention of a plastic, Bakelite (from his name), was used as a nonconductor of electricity and as a heat resistant. Given 'the registered name Bakelite, became the special plastic or resin type with so many other items made were widely used during the forty's and fiftys. No Skin Off One's Nose: A very interesting phrase that indicates, "nothing of concern to one or not one's affair". According to the book, in today's slang, one might replace it with using the ear, elbow or back with implications still be evident. Example, if one doesn't butt into or stick one;s nose into an affair that is not none of one's business, he is not likely to suffer consequences upon any prominent portion of one's anatomy by being thrown out upon his nose, elbow, back, shoulder or the like. This allusion is reference as American and going back at least fifty years ago (reminder of first published book was 1948). Thanks for stopping by...hope you enjoyed reading about the above referenced book. Seabreeze (Trinkets require an Upgrade to display.) |
| March 5, 2019 Today I am going to look at another unit of measure in poetry; the iamb. According to the Poetry Foundation (on line), the iamb is a metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable. Words such as attain, portray, and describe are examples of such iambic patterns. My research tells me that in writing rhyming metrical you usually count feet instead of syllables. That foot consists of a group of syllables. In this case, an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable. Your poetry lines can be long or short. I understand that Robert Frost's, "The Road Not Taken" is a good example of a iambic poem. Here is the first stanza of that poem: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Credit: at Literary Devices Seabreeze |
| March 4, 2019 Hard to believe that we are 4 days into the new month! In am in my count down mode to SPRING! Only 17 more days to go. Subject today is meter and foot. According to what I looked up on the Internet, we get: The basic unit of measurement of accentual-syllabic meter. A foot usually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable. The standard types of feet in English poetry are the iamb, trochee, dactyl, anapest, spondee, and pyrrhic (two unstressed syllables). Wow, I don't know about you, but for me, those words are intimidating! So I must break them down to bite size. I am going to look at dacty first, just because I like the way that one looks, ha, ha. So it says that a dactyl = a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables or (in Greek and Latin) one long syllable followed by two short syllables. So I am looking and I see that a sample of a dactyl would be the word bicycle, fabulous, melody and poetry! I found one example: (Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (By Walt Whitman) “Out of the cradle, endlessly rocking Out of the mockingbird’s throat, the musical shuttle Out of the Ninth-month midnight …” Whitman is using dactyl in the phrase, “Out of the …” as a pulse riding throughout this poem, which is generating a starting point for each new line. So much fun to see the different names given to use of syllables used in the meter and foot. Tomorrow I am going to look at another; come join me. Seabreeze |
| March 3 Well, the snow is coming down hard. It is beautiful but maintaining the driveway is very time consuming (see below). The good thing is I have spent time here writing and I also finish another small watercolor study (below). What is your hobby, I mean in addition to writing? (Trinkets require an Upgrade to display.) |
| MARCH 2, 2019 Hello, Welcome to my first posting of a new blog! I would to see if I can post a daily on a regular basis. I want visitors to stop by and say hello, introduce yourself and maybe we can also get to know each others' works. Feel free to share what's on your mind. What are your favorites - writing Chapters, short stories, poetry? Maybe we could also discuss poetry forms, such as rhyme, meter and rhyme schemes. I am weak in this area, so I appreciate the input. Hope to see you soon, Seabreeze ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** |
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