Eureka!

Um, so yeah.

I just found the word I was looking for, but didn't know I was looking for. Let me explain.

I was on dictionary.com trying to find this word John Steinbeck uses in Cannery Row when I came across this. 

Firstly, it's an interesting/freakish happening. Secondly, do you see that word? Pareidolia! Isn't it fabulous?

...And that's all I really have to say.

"He dipped his paintbrush in his heart."

The Goods

I never blogged about Christmas, mainly because I didn't have a computer at the time. Yeah, it's hard to blog without a computer....imagine that. Anyway. I had an excellent Christmas this year. The highlight was my bookshelf, as seen below. It's amazing. It folds up, making it easily transportable. I also got two books: a biography of Henrik Ibsen and Lives of the Great Composers--the latter being a book I've wanted for some time now and the former being a delightful surprise. I might need a new one soon though....mine's getting full.
This Christmas was also nice since I got to spend it with some family. Well....it's over and a new year is here. Onto my last semester of high school.

Do you see the blue bowl? My mother made that when she was a little girl.

True that

"It was all too easy to lose oneself in a past half real, half imaginary, and so be blind to the present. In the cities that I knew best, Tours, Blois, Orleans, I lost myself in fantasy, seeing other walls, older streets, the crumbling corners of once glittering facades, and they were more live to me than any real structure before my eyes, for in their shadows lay security; but in the hard light of reality there was only doubt and apprehension."

--John, The Scapegoat, by Daphne du Maurier

First off, let me just say: I loved the Scapegoat. It reminded me of why I love Daphne du Maurier so much. The plot, the characters, and--above all--her style. When I read this passage, my immediate thought was, "me, too." I don't think anyone else could have better summed up my love/feelings for history. I only wish I could say Tours, Blois, and Orleans were the cities I knew best. Unfortunately, I've only been to Bitsch, France. Someday.

It's funny, I tend to think of myself as an anachronism. I wonder if I was born a few centuries ago if I would feel the same way.