For Leigh Anne and all who celebrate words:

I know a few days have passed since Leigh Anne hosted her Word Buffet party, but I still wanted to join in. It’s so fun and so hard to select words to bring, but here’s my offering.

harbinger – Sometimes used in a negative context, I love all the hopeful ways this word can be used. The things that trigger the hope of good things to come are the harbingers I love.

spuddle – This 17th century word was introduced to me through social media and I love it as it describes so much of how it feels to work in our fast-paced world: “Spuddle: a useful verb from the 17th Century that means to work feebly or ineffectively, because your mind is elsewhere or you haven’t quite woken up yet. It can also mean: “To be extremely busy whilst achieving absolutely nothing”. Spuddle is for the days when I start too many things and can’t seem to finish anything.

glimmer – I love the word glimmer when I think of how the tiniest light can pierce darkness. We are blessed by glimmers – glimmers of gratitude, glimmers of progress, glimmers of change, glimmers of hope.

breath – The first and last sound of our human lives. The taking of an intentional breath can push the reset button for so many things. I love all I learned about breath from my yoga teacher.

periwinkle – This word is fun to say; the flower is fun to see; the shade of purple-blue so unique. I learned that it also symbolizes friendship from this website:

“The most cited depictions of periwinkles are associated with pleasant emotional states or the experience of nostalgia.  One story that stands out is from the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau who looked upon the periwinkle as meaning “fidelity in friendship”, “warm memories” and “remembrance of things past”.

Thank you Leigh Anne for this writing idea and so many that flow from you.