July 2021 – Princeton Writes

Word of the Week: sedulous (SĔJ-ə-ləs)

Stephanie Whetstone2021-05-18T15:12:57-04:00

Word of the Week: sedulous (SĔJ-ə-ləs) Definition (Adjective) Of persons or agents: Diligent, active, constant in application to the matter in hand; assiduous, persistent. In Context "But Somers, whose chronic maladies, aggravated by sedulous application to judicial and political business, made it necessary for him to avoid crowds and luxurious banquets, retired to Tunbridge Wells, and tried to repair his exhausted frame with the water of the springs and the air of its heath." Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume 5, 1861.

Word of the Week: sedulous (SĔJ-ə-ləs)Stephanie Whetstone2021-05-18T15:12:57-04:00

A Poem for You: The Blue-Green Stream

admin2021-05-24T14:03:02-04:00

The Blue-Green Stream Wang Wei Translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell Every time I have started for the Yellow Flower River, I have gone down the Blue-Green Stream, Following the hills, making ten thousand turnings, We go along rapidly, but advance scarcely one hundred li. We are in the midst of a noise of water, Of the confused and mingled sounds of water broken by stones, And in the deep darkness of pine trees. Rocked, rocked, Moving on and on, We float past water-chestnuts Into a still clearness reflecting reeds and rushes. My heart is clean and white as silk; it [...]

A Poem for You: The Blue-Green Streamadmin2021-05-24T14:03:02-04:00

Word of the Week: ancillary (ĂN-sə-lĕr-ē)

Stephanie Whetstone2021-05-18T15:13:42-04:00

Word of the Week: ancillary (ĂN-sə-lĕr-ē) Definition (Adjective) Designating activities and services that provide essential support to the functioning of a central service or industry; also, of staff employed in these supporting roles. Now used especially of non-medical staff and services in hospitals. In Context "Rather than taking an ancillary, paramedical position, these individuals are becoming directly and independently responsible for a broad range of health care functions, including prevention, assessment, therapy and rehabilitation." Stephen Polgar and Shane A. Thomas, Introduction to Research in the Health Sciences, Fifth Edition, 2008.

Word of the Week: ancillary (ĂN-sə-lĕr-ē)Stephanie Whetstone2021-05-18T15:13:42-04:00

A Poem for You: “The world is a beautiful place”

admin2021-05-24T13:58:09-04:00

"The world is a beautiful place" Lawrence Ferlinghetti The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don’t mind happiness not always being so very much fun if you don’t mind a touch of hell now and then just when everything is fine because even in heaven they don’t sing all the time The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don’t mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn’t half so bad if it isn’t you Oh the world is a beautiful place to [...]

A Poem for You: “The world is a beautiful place”admin2021-05-24T13:58:09-04:00

A Poem for You: Might Have Been July, Might Have Been December

admin2021-06-17T11:30:44-04:00

Might Have Been July, Might Have Been December BY ROBERT WRIGLEY More oblique the eagle’s angle than the osprey’s precipitous fall, but rose up both and under them dangled a trout, the point of it all. Festooned, a limb on each one’s favored tree either side of the river, with chains of bone and lace of skin the river’s wind made shiver. Sat under them both, one in December, one in July, in diametrical seasonal airs, and once arrived home, as I remember, with a thin white fish rib lodged in my hair.

A Poem for You: Might Have Been July, Might Have Been Decemberadmin2021-06-17T11:30:44-04:00

Word of the Week: coppice (KŎP-ĭs)

Stephanie Whetstone2021-05-18T15:09:23-04:00

Word of the Week: coppice (KŎP-ĭs) Definition (Noun) A small wood or thicket consisting of underwood and small trees grown for the purpose of periodical cutting. In Context "They waited in the plough facing a coppice of mixed softwoods which sloped slightly downhill towards them." Isabel Colegate, The Shooting Party, 1980.

Word of the Week: coppice (KŎP-ĭs)Stephanie Whetstone2021-05-18T15:09:23-04:00

Word of the Week: effulgent (ĭ-FŎŎL-jənt)

Stephanie Whetstone2021-05-18T15:07:24-04:00

Word of the Week: effulgent (ĭ-FŎŎL-jənt) Definition (Adjective) Shining forth brilliantly; sending forth intense light; resplendent, radiant. In Context "And it blazed with a light that was like that of the sun – very splendid and effulgent – so that they could scarcely look upon the splendor thereof." Howard Pyle, The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur, 1910.

Word of the Week: effulgent (ĭ-FŎŎL-jənt)Stephanie Whetstone2021-05-18T15:07:24-04:00

A Poem for You: The More Loving One

admin2021-05-24T13:45:22-04:00

The More Loving One W. H. Auden Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars [...]

A Poem for You: The More Loving Oneadmin2021-05-24T13:45:22-04:00

Book of the Month: Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter (1939)

admin2021-05-24T16:11:40-04:00

Book of the Month: Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter (1939) Critical Evaluation "The three short novels that make up Pale Horse, Pale Rider -- Old Mortality, Noon Wine, and the title story itself -- ask in turn the three questions that, as the critic Mark Schorer put it, humankind has always asked: What were we? What are we? What will we be? Old Morality addresses the first of these: It is a coming-of-age story about the self-deceptions that can turn a family's history into both romance and burden. Noon Wine shows how the easygoing past can be transformed in an instant into a terrible [...]

Book of the Month: Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter (1939)admin2021-05-24T16:11:40-04:00

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