A Mother's Mantra

Words

- Angela Manalang Gloria

I never meant the words I said,
So trouble not your honest head
And never mean the words I write,
But come and kiss me now goodnight.

The words I said break with the thunder
Of billows surging into spray:
Unfathomed depths withhold the wonder
Of all the words I never say.

Can You Write a Biography in 7 Words?

 

Our friends a BrainPickings have a post from the LIVE from the NYPL program, on famous people and 7 word biographies.

Here are a few:

Anish Kapoor: As if to celebrate I discovered a mountain

Edmund de Waal: Actually, I still make pots you know.

John Irving: FOR DICKENS (THE WRITER): Had many kids; wrote about unhappy childhoods.

Joan Didion: Seven words do not yet define me.

If you wrote your biography in 7 words, what would it say? Here's mine:

Snowball: Ran into myself here yesterday, I think.

"Boketto"

Saunter on over to Mental Floss and acquaint yourself with some wonderful Words With No English Equivalent. 



 
Oh, the one in the heading is Japanese, and describes the act of gazing vacantly into the distance without thinking.