Finding Neverland

What a beautiful movie! I loved every minute. Much as I love Johnny Depp, my favorite thing in the movie was the little boy whole played Peter. He was fantastic.

Just so you know, I'm not the only one who liked it...Rotten Tomatoes gave it an 84%.

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

Here's an excerpt from the book, "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss:
"Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightening, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave."
(hence the subtitle of the book "A Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation")

If you'd like to test your own punctuation abilities, you can play the Punctuation Game by clicking here. See if you're a stickler like Lynne. Good luck!

Quotation for Saturday, February 19, 2005:

"The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it."

The Abolition of Man

Look, Jim...one of our favorite words!

perspicacity
(Pronunciation: pur-spuh-KAS-uh-tee) n.
Acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding.

Definition:
[n] the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and draw sound conclusions

Synonyms:
astuteness, judgement, perspicaciousness, shrewdness, sound judgement
See Also:
acumen, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, insightfulness, intelligence, knowingness, slyness, street smarts

Quotation for Friday, February 18, 2005

This one's got me thinking. I don't remember this line from the book. I need to go back and read this in context to understand his whole thought process on it:

"You can't, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately; anyway, you can't get the best out of it."

A Grief Observed
(C.S. Lewis)

Today's new word

perfervid

adj : characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: ardent, burning(a), fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, torrid]

Happy Birthday to me!

I was born on this date in 1964. That was obviously the year of the Beatles here in the States...

• "Can't Buy Me Love" and "She Loves You" were hits in 1964
• John Lennon's book "In His Own Write" was released in 1964.
• Apparently there were no reports of juvenile crime in New York City the day the Beatles came to town....which proves I wasn't the only good thing to come along that year!

Heaven on Seven

Had a great Cajun lunch today. Definitely worth checking out if you go to Chicago.

Word of the Day

transmute \trans-MYOOT; tranz-\, transitive verb:
To change from one nature, form, substance, or state into another; to transform.

(Book Babes - you already know this one very well from "Bee Season")

intransitive verb:
To undergo transmutation.

"It now seems as if she no longer had the strength or will to transmute life into art."
--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, "Changes Not for the Better," New York Times, February 28, 1974

"Sand that once was rock becomes rock once again as it slowly sediments and compresses into layers of sandstone, which, in turn, transmute into sand."
--Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker, The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth

My gorgeous puppies

Cody
Daisy

Hot stuff

Erica had a Hawaiian party tonight, which got me interested in volcanoes.

Alarm Clock

Ok, here's my new invention (no fair stealing it and getting the patent before I do!). Instead of the radio or a buzzer sounding when the alarm goes off, this alarm clock spouts Bible verses...

On the first alarm (Isaiah 51):
"Awake, awake! Rise up!"
After one time hitting the snooze (Isaiah 52):
"Shake off your dust...rise up!!"
Hit the snooze again (Proverbs 6):
"How long will you lie there, you sluggard!!!"

Can't say I agree

This would be one of the few things I disagree with Jack Lewis about:

"...I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of."

Surprised by Joy - C.S. Lewis
(I really do love this book, though, and recommend it for anyone wanting an inside look at how Lewis arrived at his beliefs)