Well I never...

Oh my word. I'm working on a company rationale. And happened to look up the word "movement" in the thesaurus. Third entry:

Main Entry:	movement
Part of Speech:	noun
Related Adjectives:	brachiating, catabatic, circumambient, coxinutant, cursorial, dextrosinistral, digitigrade, drawing, erratic, feirie, formicating, gestic, glad, in motion, irpe, irreptitious, laterigrade, left, mercurial, mobile, motile, motive, motory, movable, moving, murgeoning, nomadic, paradromic, pedestrious, pinnigrade, proal, projectile, pronograde, propelled, propelling, propulsive, recoiling, rectigrade, reptant, restless, shanks, sinistrodextral, subsultive, sure, transitional, unquiet, vermigrade, viaggiatory, wandle

Never have I ever seen such a delicious collection of words! It'll take me days to digest all of this...

But can you ever be just whelmed?

3 points to the namer of the movie that the headline comes from.

Word question of the week: is mittently a word?

Approximate Context: An occasional event that happened intermittently began occurring mittently.

My conclusion: While I can see what point the speaker was trying to convey, he actually used an obsolete word wrong. Mittent means "emitting" - or did. It's no longer in use. He made it an adverb, but that doesn't work. Back to grade school:
How did the event occur? Mittently.
I'm not buying it.

Tweeted the question to Mighty Red Pen this morning and generated a lot of interesting insights. Twitter's growing on me.

That's all for now.

Dark and sinister man, have at thee!

Who knew that once you "grow up," finding things to be passionate about becomes a daily chore?

"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me."

And there is good in maturing (don't get me started on healthcare plans and dependency and boys who can shave and personal responsibility and ... ok, moving on). But it breaks my heart to think how many people have lost that childlike sense of wonder and excitement that wakes kids up in the morning. It's that spark of interest in them that keeps them looking around, asking questions, reaching for things, and stopping in their tracks.

I watched "Hook" last night - again. I'd forgotten how poignant the storyline was - so many subtle lines jumped at me this time around.
Maggie's encouraging "Run home, Jack!"
Tink's "You know that place between sleep and awake? That place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you, Peter Pan. That's where I'll be waiting."
Grandma Wendy's "Hello, Boy."
Hook's deep revelations over the meaninglessness of a life that lasts forever.

But I think the part that got me most was Peter's re-transformation (I hesitate to call it regression - it's an old form with new dimensions). Watching him remember how to let go of worry, of rules, of reality, and start to imagine again was inspiring.

It also made me think: If I could live my life with a sense of childlike wonder and excitement, what a cool mom I might one day be! (I told my boyfriend I want to adopt a handful of boys and call them my Lost Boys. He cringed a little.)