{"id":7796,"date":"2010-09-18T18:22:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T00:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7796"},"modified":"2010-09-18T18:22:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T00:22:29","slug":"delight-first-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7796","title":{"rendered":"Delight.  First Thoughts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Back to School Moon<\/p>\n<p>Delight.\u00a0 Joy.\u00a0 Enthusiasm.\u00a0 Passion.\u00a0 The Woolly question for this Monday is, What delights you?\u00a0\u00a0 OED:\u00a0 from Latin delectare- to allure, attract delight, charm please.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7797\" title=\"frog6003_2010-09-18_0290\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/frog6003_2010-09-18_0290.jpg\" alt=\"frog6003_2010-09-18_0290\" width=\"360\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/frog6003_2010-09-18_0290.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/frog6003_2010-09-18_0290-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 to give great pleasure, enjoyment, to please highly<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 to enjoy greatly<\/p>\n<p>Joy.\u00a0\u00a0 OED:\u00a0 a vivid emotion of pleasure arising from a sense of well-being,\u00a0 the feeling or state of being highly please or delighted, exultation of spirit, gladness, delight<\/p>\n<p>Finding the green frog this morning delighted me.\u00a0 Digging potatoes, too.\u00a0 Seeing Ruth smile and jump on the couch.\u00a0 Watching Vega roll over and stick her legs in the air, smiling.\u00a0 Watching Kate walk without pain.\u00a0 Going on a long trip.\u00a0 Seeing my boy.\u00a0 Reading.\u00a0 A good movie.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of good movies.\u00a0 I just finished Gran Torino.\u00a0 A brilliant tear-jerker.\u00a0 Eastwood gave an oscar winning performance, but I don&#8217;t think he got one for it.\u00a0 Also am nearing the end of Encounters at the End of the World by Werner Herzog.\u00a0 This guy is a genius.\u00a0 Antarctica never looked so peculiar.\u00a0 He also weaves gently apocalyptic thought into the film as a whole.\u00a0 Both highly recommended if you, like me, missed them three years or so ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Back to School Moon Delight.\u00a0 Joy.\u00a0 Enthusiasm.\u00a0 Passion.\u00a0 The Woolly question for this Monday is, What delights you?\u00a0\u00a0 OED:\u00a0 from Latin delectare- to allure, attract delight, charm please. 1.\u00a0 to give great pleasure, enjoyment, to please highly 3.\u00a0 to enjoy greatly Joy.\u00a0\u00a0 OED:\u00a0 a vivid emotion of pleasure arising from a sense of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7796\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Delight.  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