what's in my drawers

words. collected in this little ringbound notebook i keep in the computer desk drawer.

some of my favorites:

afflatus: a divine inspiration

lubricious: lewd; also slippery or smooth

fugacious: transitory, fleeting

panglossian: excessively or naively optimistic

sinecure: an office or position that involves little work or responsibility

thigmophilic: touch-loving

sadly, many of my collected words can no longer be found in current editions of the dictionary (or the computer's spellcheck). that is why i will scour thrift store shelves for those thirty pound hard cover editions published prior to 1970. with their tissue-like pages, tiny detailed illustrations and irresistible fingertip cut-away tabs for easy alphabetized searching, they are indispensable home accessories.

Comments

[gigi]

i too love those old dictionaries. whenever i was a kid and i'd ask my mom what a word meant, she would tell me to look it up and i would go to one of those super heavy books.

ah, memories.

[Helen]

Love this! Yes where do the missing words go? Why are they left out?

[Kirsty]

thigmophilic: touch-loving.

I must be thigmophilic. Touchability is important to me.

[Amanda]

I love this idea. I too am a collector if words, but mostly try to keep them in my head (a terrible idea). I think I will do something similar to your ring...wonderful! You made my day!