Streaming … Time … Water … Life
Some days stream along slowly and pleasantly,
while others sweep you along on a torrent of flood waters … kinda like how time
passes.
Uh-huh. So I sorta get “brooklet”—but what’s a
“rill”? And what does a tiny one look like?
Well, isn’t just a stream—it’s a “small
stream.”
The dictionary is full of definitions like
this to confuse and compound the English language. Since rillet’s mommy-word is just two
entries above, you’re not left scratching your head.
Often however, looking up A word, you must
waste your time rifling through the 1,000+ pages to a completely different letter section, for a
definitive meaning, or decide not to bother. Do they know TIME is our most precious commodity?!
Timemay seem to trickle like a rillet while waiting for Happy Hour—but
don’t look now—nearly a year’s worth of Happy Hours have gushed away, in a fleeting
torrent.
Beyond that, all I can say, is I hope the rillet
of venom, hate, and vilification of human contact that is penetrating the news
doesn’t turn in to a delusional flood that destroys human contact altogether.
May as well turn the Earth over to the AIs at that point.
Word Challenge: RILLET. On a bright note … it
takes a rillet to join a stream that fills a river on its way to the ocean.
Start your week of writing with a noodling rillet.
Write first for
yourself … only then can you write for others. (L.Rochelle)
E-N-D
