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#174: bibliotaph

11/30/2015

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the bibliotaph
more books than the library
stashed in her small flat
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Hoarders gonna hoard. 

I just looked around my office and realized I better clear out some things before I get on a teevee show! 


DEFINITION of this 4-syllable noun:
  1. a person who caches or hoards books.
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#173: nocturne

11/29/2015

 
after intense work
feasting, shopping; more eating
play the nocturne... sleep
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could add to that "work load" driving, but in fact it was a most enjoyable four days with family, friends and some face-to-face time with a colleague from Chicago who was visiting family and could make some cherished time. 

A great resolution — if we can even in a small way keep — is to live every day as a day of thanks-giving. ​I'll put up a picture of a wild turkey to remind me — the totem in Native American culture of abundance, giving, renewal and rebirth.


DEFINITION of this 2-syllable noun: 
  1. Music. a piece appropriate to the night or evening.
  2. Music. an instrumental composition of a dreamy or pensive character.

#172: pandiculation

11/28/2015

 
the yogi master
shows pandiculation past
imagination
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Yes, I do yoga... once in a great while. 
... but... 
If I was to attempt this seemingly simple pose, I would put myself in a place of terrible, horrible, not very good pain. 


DEFINITION of this 5-syllable noun: 
  1. the act of stretching oneself.

#171: oniomania

11/27/2015

 
Black Friday promotes
wild oniomania
that oft knows no bounds
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"The corruption of the American soul is consumerism." 
— Ben Nicholson
"We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.
— Aloe Blacc
"Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa — it stops us from thinking in general." 
— Pink
"My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry."
— Bill Bryson

DEFINITION of this 6-syllable noun:
  1. an uncontrollable desire to buy things.

#170: gormandize

11/26/2015

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oh, yes, gormandize
wow! I think I gained a size
now must ex-er-cise
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Another year, another self-induced food coma! 
Why do we do it! 

Because it tastes SO GOOD! 

And we're going to do it all over again tomorrow on just the leftovers... and when we've eaten all that, we're going to cook another feast on Saturday! Europeans must think us mad. 


DEFINITION of this 3-syllable verb:
  1. to eat greedily or ravenously.
  2. unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
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#169: uxorious

11/25/2015

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and how can you not 
uxorious be with wife
glorious as she?
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I give thanks for my own glorious and dote-worthy wife Bonnie!


That's the doting Sir Patrick Stewart and his blissed out wife Sunny Ozell. 


DEFINITION of this 4-syllable adjective:
  1. doting upon, foolishly fond of, or affectionately submissive toward one's wife.
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#168: penetralia

11/24/2015

 
penetralia
if we reveal our deep thoughts
are they thanks giving?
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DEFINITION of this 5-syllable noun:
  1. the most private or secret things.
  2. the innermost parts or recesses of a place or thing.
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