always contretemps
​temporary fix never
lasts quite long enough 

Will it ever change that we wait until the disaster happens, then spend tenfold on fixing it? ... and often with irreparable damage to families and communities. Support and fund American infrastructure projects and jobs!

DEFINITION of this 3-syllable noun:

1. an inopportune occurrence; an embarrassing mischance: 
   ​He caused a minor contretemps by knocking over his drink.

tonsorial shop
site of a very stark loss:
enlistment haircut

Brings back Air Force memories: all new enlistees arrive in all different styles of clothing and hair. Within a very short time every man has a buzz cut and a pickle suit (green fatigues) to break down individuality... everyone looks relatively the same. 

Then the training begins. Stand out and they stand on you. 

But it's all a game. My Air Force Basic Training "flight" learned that early. Go along, get along. One of our flight's father was gravely injured and they had our fellow airman on a plane home within five minutes. They had our back. We pulled together as a team. Our group was a double Honor Flight and we were awarded a free day in San Antonio and an outing to a professional soccer match.

DEFINITION of this 4-syllable adjective:

1. of or relating to a barber or barbering: the tonsorial shop.

plates of food he ate
did not hunger palliate
gut would expiate

DEFINITION of this 3-syllable verb:

1. to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
2. to try to mitigate or conceal the gravity of (an offense) by excuses, apologies, etc.; extenuate.

to tell a story
in syllabic brevity
in a word: haiku

An historic moment captured by Cuban photojournalist Yander Alberto Zamora 
​— full article here.


a haiku:
Air Force One landing,
touchdown Havana, Cuba...
score one for the world

DEFINITION of this 3-syllable noun:

1. the quality of expressing much in few words; terseness: Ironically, it is long-winded Polonius in Shakespeare's Hamlet who famously says that brevity is the soul of wit.
2. shortness of time or duration; briefness: the brevity of human life.

vast asterism
a starstruck cataclysm
seeds of theism

I want to do our driveway like this!! This road or path uses StarpathPRO from Pro-Teq Surfacing, a UK company:
"STARPATH-PRO is packaged in a ready to use container consisting of award winning STARPATH’s photoluminescent aggregate mix and a resin binder, which when mixed together create a natural appearance in the daytime and stunning illuminescent transformation at night."

DEFINITION of this 4-syllable noun:

1. Astronomy. a. a group of stars. b. a constellation.
2. Mineralogy. a property of some crystallized minerals of showing a starlike luminous figure in transmitted light or,in a cabochon-cut stone, by reflected light.

the ninnyhammer
struck thumb with metal mallet
began to stammer

DEFINITION of this 4-syllable noun:

1. a fool or simpleton; ninny.

she's intransigent
attitude bent, had to vent!
after all... she's ten

 
 
 
 
 
You just told her this joke:
Q: What do you call cheese that's not yours?
A: Nacho cheese!



She wanted that cheese. 
You ate it. 
No grilled cheese sandwich for her. 
No relaxing for you. 

DEFINITION of this 4-syllable adjective:

1. refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.
2. a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.