Willow-isms are neologisms, new words or phrases I have made up.
Slow Defeat Who doesn’t want to enjoy the slow defeats within a long life? Let death claim its single victory, while we take a thousand dances under the bright sun of delusion. Each moment another victory against the inevitable. Each tomorrow a new day – apart from once. But is death such a big loss? […]
Feeling a bit unwell after a night out. My significant other said : “It wouldn’t surprise me if we caught something from the other night. We don’t get much exposure these days.” “Ah, The diseased populus,” I said, “The pox populi.” It did leave me wondering what century I was born in. VOX POPS and […]
I wondered how many of us are in thrall to our thoughts. Scared of them, scared of their power. How they wrap up in our emotions and give them powerful form. I thought I would go into a little more detail, of how thought became my slave and I the master. Then I thought I […]
Follow the unfortunate : They have more to teach you and you can laugh at them to make yourself feel better. This is pure Schadenfreude. From the German for sausage-stealer. To steal someone’s sausages is the colloquial expression for deflating someone’s balloon while blowing into your own. Lowering their status and increasing your personal […]
You know, I meet young people, and they want to act and they want to be famous, and I tell them, when you get to the top of the tree, there’s nothing up there. Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie. Accept life as it is. Just be grateful to […]
I got parked early at the hospital,which was unusual and headed straight in. The nurses and hospital staff take up most of the spaces. The further you walk into the belly of the beast, its more a progression of waiting rooms. The main waiting room, its’s really hard to tell what is wrong with people. […]
“Ememe /i:mi:m/ 1. A method of communicating emotional content, usually occurring simultaneously with, yet distinct from and unrelated to, spoken or signed language. 2. The emotional content transmitted or received via apparently unrelated words or signs. 3. An emotional message conveyed between two parties of the same cultural or neural type that may not be […]
There is no good or bad but thinking makes it so,Horatio Shakespeare Ever made any mistakes? I didn’t think so. I expect nothing less from my readers. Faultless human beings. Myself,however, I am made entirely out of mistakes. How I made them mine Over a long period of time, I learned to […]
I suddenly thought. The world needs a new adage. All the adages are old and that is not acceptable to me. Nor should it be to anyone. Favorite adage I thought of a few of my favorites. there’s many a slip between twixt cup and lip too many cooks spoil the broth […]
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.’ — W.C. Fields The definition of insanity,according to Einstein, is doing the same thing and expecting different results,so I wanted to test this fully. I lived my life for many years in a ridiculous yet consistent […]
