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My favorite writing project is my blog, A BEAUTIFUL WORD. It is where all my beautiful words reside. I select topics and then formulate a lexicon for it. A lexicon is a collection of words, but you can think of it as a word list. I have done many word lists since it’s inception in 2018.
I’ve just recently started creating Beautiful Word Guides. These a longer length lists on specific topics and include a narrative that gives details, histories and interesting facts. These are published in a document and stored on my Google Drive Book Shelf. I am making them available here! I post my words under the hashtag #beautifulwords on Twitter.
INDEX OF WORD GUIDES - Doc index of all guides
I’ve just recently started creating Beautiful Word Guides. These a longer length lists on specific topics and include a narrative that gives details, histories and interesting facts. These are published in a document and stored on my Google Drive Book Shelf. I am making them available here! I post my words under the hashtag #beautifulwords on Twitter.
INDEX OF WORD GUIDES - Doc index of all guides
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THE SCANDULOUS AND STEAMY GREEK GODS AND THE ORIGINS OF SEX VOCABULARY
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About this Guide: Have you ever wondered where our sex vocabulary came from? Like the words pornography, erotica or aphrodisiac? Credit goes to the ancient Greeks and the gods and goddesses of Greek Mythology. Can you imagine Aristotle or Plato uttering the word erotica? At the symposium they talked an awful lot about Eros, the Greek god of sex, and Aphrodite, his counterpart, the goddess of love. This word guide is full of NSFW words and some sex history from Gods like Uranus and his magic penis.
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IT ALL COMES DOWN TO A KISS
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About this Guide: What is a kiss? Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls because the spirit is said to be carried in one’s breath. A kiss is: A vow made at a close range. A promise made. A confession that contains proof. A seal of a deal or a pact. A discovery. An assurance of protection. A secret told to the soul. A distinction between giving and taking. A moment of blissful peace. An expression of the soul. A claim or intention. A message sent to the heart.
Soul meets soul is as good as it gets.
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Secrets of the Heart - Understanding Attraction, Lust, Love and Sex
A HISTORY OF TIME
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About this Guide: Time. Obviously we know what time is. Time is the continuous passage of existence in which events pass from a state of potentiality in the future, through the present, to a state of finality in the past. But let’s dig a little deeper into the history and origins of time, the ages of time, and the concepts of time that are studied from multiple perspectives to understand the human condition.
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IS THAT EVEN A REAL WORD?
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About this Guide: There are some rare and obscure words with real meaning but so many syllables that it is hard to believe that it is a real word. A challenge for any logophile is to pronounce them correctly. Give it a try with a selection of English words and untranslatable ones from around the world.
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A POLITICAL POWER WORD PLAY
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About this Guide: Politics and government are normally hot topics but they are sizzling right now! We have some beautiful words that tell our political story - words we don’t hear a lot - you may have never heard some of them ever before! Let’s take a look at the linguistic footprint in American politics, the issues and the many quirks. These are not all necessarily government or political terms - you can find a glossary of those anywhere online. These are in fact Beautiful Words that can be applied to politics, government, and voting.
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SEEKING THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
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About this Guide: WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE?
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” - Socrates. The mind is the set of cognitive functions such as consciousness, imagination, perception, thinking, intelligence, judgement, language and memory, as well as noncognitive aspects such as emotion and instinct. Learn what knowledge and wisdom are in the context of epistemology to understand what philosophy has been debating for an eon of human development.
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EMBERS OF THOUGHT
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About this Guide: I think therefore I am? Thought encompasses a flow of abstract and linear ideas and associations that can lead to a reality-oriented action or conclusion. Although thinking is an activity of an existential value for humans, there is still no consensus as to how it is adequately defined or understood. Thinking allows us to make sense of, interpret, represent or model the world we experience, and to make predictions about that world. It is therefore key to manifesting action from the needs, objectives, and desires that come from planning and strategizing.
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Riding the Crazy Train - Understanding Thoughts, Feelings and Emotions
OBSCURE FEELINGS YOU CAN’T DEFINE
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About this Guide: We all know the basic emotions. Feelings like happiness, anger, grief, joy, confusion, sadness and sorrow. Common feelings of humanity. But what about the ones you have that don’t fit neatly in that little box? The ones that make you feel alone? What about dark feelings? The disturbing, the negative, delusional or the obsessive? Or the seemingly strange but positive ones like the euphoric highs, obsessive desires, attraction or love for weird things or the wrong people? Do you ever feel something that you can’t explain and struggle endlessly grasping for the right word that describes it? Download now and you can see you are not alone.
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Riding the Crazy Train - Understanding Thoughts, Feelings and Emotions
FATE AND DESTINY IN AN ETERNAL WORLD
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About this Guide: The concepts of fate and destiny and the concepts of eternity and infinity are all entwined in meaning but each have distinct connotations. Fate and destiny relate (differently) to a predetermined state in the future and that future may or may not be held eternally or infinitely. This list explores these concepts as well as the circumstances that play into their defining characteristics.
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Secrets of the Heart - Understanding Attraction, Lust, Love and Sex
CUP OF COLORFUL CREATIVE FLOW
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About this Guide: YOU KNOW THE FEELING. You are writing, drawing, painting (whatever your creativity is) and you are hitting it hard. Your b words are flowing like wine, your brush strokes are dancing across your canvas and you feel awake, alive, and like you are producing the best you’ve ever done. You can’t name it but you bet it is like what Tom Brady feels when he lights up the field with out of the world game plays.
You know it as being IN THE ZONE
but your brain recognizes it as CREATIVE FLOW
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Defining New Ideas - Dictionary of Creativity, Innovation and Design
TRANSLATING THE UNTRANSLATABLE
Share this Guide: https://bit.ly/thereisawordforthat
About this Guide: We often hear people use the term ‘lost in translation’ when referring to mishaps or mistakes in translating from language to another. Some languages are simply unable to capture the true essence of a word when it has been translated from another language. What happens when there is a need for a word to define something and no such word exists? Is “close enough” good enough? Untranslatable words are words from another language that can’t easily be translated into English. Download now to explore these words from faraway lands.
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THE MINDFUL AESTHETIC
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About this Guide: This word guide is built upon the principles of mindfulness. It presents philosophical words for you to ponder in your meditative practice. Let me start by quickly defining philosophy and the schools of thought within the discipline. You can also use a concept to focus on and let your mind explore its meaning. This article presents various philosophical ideas that you can use to focus your meditation on. These are deep and profound concepts from a variety of cultures that can introduce you to the beauty of life. Try reading through this list and pick a concept to explore. Bring it into your meditation and ponder it. You will begin to recognize and understand deeper meaning while training your mind to focus on one concept at a time.
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SEEKING MIDNIGHT MADNESS AND MERAKI
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About this Guide: Rastrophiliopustrocity is a spontaneous combustion of creative spark that fuels the creation of a new idea which you then take actions in order to produce the idea using your skill and tenacity. This word translates into the concept of CREATIVE FLOW in English. Most people are in bed asleep by midnight. But not creatives, innovators, artists or night thinkers. All around us there are writers, artists, painters, thinkers, poets, crafters, programmersb, designers, musicians and artisans creating, designing, building and thinking in the quiet stillness of a dark night under the inspiring influence of the moon and stars.
VIEW GUIDE NOW
DOWNLOAD THE ASSOCIATED BOOK
Defining New Ideas - Dictionary of Creativity, Innovation and Design
THE SCANDULOUS AND STEAMY GREEK GODS AND THE ORIGINS OF SEX VOCABULARY
Share this Guide: https://bit.ly/steamygreek
About this Guide: Have you ever wondered where our sex vocabulary came from? Like the words pornography, erotica or aphrodisiac? Credit goes to the ancient Greeks and the gods and goddesses of Greek Mythology. Can you imagine Aristotle or Plato uttering the word erotica? At the symposium they talked an awful lot about Eros, the Greek god of sex, and Aphrodite, his counterpart, the goddess of love. This word guide is full of NSFW words and some sex history from Gods like Uranus and his magic penis.
VIEW GUIDE NOW
NEW
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO A KISS
Share this Guide: http://bit.ly/wordkiss
About this Guide: What is a kiss? Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls because the spirit is said to be carried in one’s breath. A kiss is: A vow made at a close range. A promise made. A confession that contains proof. A seal of a deal or a pact. A discovery. An assurance of protection. A secret told to the soul. A distinction between giving and taking. A moment of blissful peace. An expression of the soul. A claim or intention. A message sent to the heart.
Soul meets soul is as good as it gets.
VIEW GUIDE NOW
DOWNLOAD THE ASSOCIATED BOOK
Secrets of the Heart - Understanding Attraction, Lust, Love and Sex
A HISTORY OF TIME
Share this Guide: http://bit.ly/wordsoftime
About this Guide: Time. Obviously we know what time is. Time is the continuous passage of existence in which events pass from a state of potentiality in the future, through the present, to a state of finality in the past. But let’s dig a little deeper into the history and origins of time, the ages of time, and the concepts of time that are studied from multiple perspectives to understand the human condition.
VIEW GUIDE NOW
IS THAT EVEN A REAL WORD?
Share this Guide: http://bit.ly/arealword
About this Guide: There are some rare and obscure words with real meaning but so many syllables that it is hard to believe that it is a real word. A challenge for any logophile is to pronounce them correctly. Give it a try with a selection of English words and untranslatable ones from around the world.
VIEW GUIDE NOW
A POLITICAL POWER WORD PLAY
Share this Guide: https://bit.ly/powerwordplay
About this Guide: Politics and government are normally hot topics but they are sizzling right now! We have some beautiful words that tell our political story - words we don’t hear a lot - you may have never heard some of them ever before! Let’s take a look at the linguistic footprint in American politics, the issues and the many quirks. These are not all necessarily government or political terms - you can find a glossary of those anywhere online. These are in fact Beautiful Words that can be applied to politics, government, and voting.
VIEW GUIDE NOW
SEEKING THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
Share this Guide: http://bit.ly/seektreeofknowledge
About this Guide: WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE?
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” - Socrates. The mind is the set of cognitive functions such as consciousness, imagination, perception, thinking, intelligence, judgement, language and memory, as well as noncognitive aspects such as emotion and instinct. Learn what knowledge and wisdom are in the context of epistemology to understand what philosophy has been debating for an eon of human development.
VIEW GUIDE NOW
EMBERS OF THOUGHT
Share this Guide: https://bit.ly/embersofthought
About this Guide: I think therefore I am? Thought encompasses a flow of abstract and linear ideas and associations that can lead to a reality-oriented action or conclusion. Although thinking is an activity of an existential value for humans, there is still no consensus as to how it is adequately defined or understood. Thinking allows us to make sense of, interpret, represent or model the world we experience, and to make predictions about that world. It is therefore key to manifesting action from the needs, objectives, and desires that come from planning and strategizing.
VIEW GUIDE NOW
DOWNLOAD THE ASSOCIATED BOOK
Riding the Crazy Train - Understanding Thoughts, Feelings and Emotions
OBSCURE FEELINGS YOU CAN’T DEFINE
Share this Guide: http://bit.ly/obscurefeelings
About this Guide: We all know the basic emotions. Feelings like happiness, anger, grief, joy, confusion, sadness and sorrow. Common feelings of humanity. But what about the ones you have that don’t fit neatly in that little box? The ones that make you feel alone? What about dark feelings? The disturbing, the negative, delusional or the obsessive? Or the seemingly strange but positive ones like the euphoric highs, obsessive desires, attraction or love for weird things or the wrong people? Do you ever feel something that you can’t explain and struggle endlessly grasping for the right word that describes it? Download now and you can see you are not alone.
VIEW GUIDE NOW
DOWNLOAD THE ASSOCIATED BOOK
Riding the Crazy Train - Understanding Thoughts, Feelings and Emotions
FATE AND DESTINY IN AN ETERNAL WORLD
Share this Guide: http://bit.ly/fatedestinyeternal
About this Guide: The concepts of fate and destiny and the concepts of eternity and infinity are all entwined in meaning but each have distinct connotations. Fate and destiny relate (differently) to a predetermined state in the future and that future may or may not be held eternally or infinitely. This list explores these concepts as well as the circumstances that play into their defining characteristics.
VIEW GUIDE NOW
DOWNLOAD THE ASSOCIATED BOOK
Secrets of the Heart - Understanding Attraction, Lust, Love and Sex
CUP OF COLORFUL CREATIVE FLOW
Share this Guide: http://bit.ly/cupofflow
About this Guide: YOU KNOW THE FEELING. You are writing, drawing, painting (whatever your creativity is) and you are hitting it hard. Your b words are flowing like wine, your brush strokes are dancing across your canvas and you feel awake, alive, and like you are producing the best you’ve ever done. You can’t name it but you bet it is like what Tom Brady feels when he lights up the field with out of the world game plays.
You know it as being IN THE ZONE
but your brain recognizes it as CREATIVE FLOW
VIEW GUIDE NOW
DOWNLOAD THE ASSOCIATED BOOK
Defining New Ideas - Dictionary of Creativity, Innovation and Design
TRANSLATING THE UNTRANSLATABLE
Share this Guide: https://bit.ly/thereisawordforthat
About this Guide: We often hear people use the term ‘lost in translation’ when referring to mishaps or mistakes in translating from language to another. Some languages are simply unable to capture the true essence of a word when it has been translated from another language. What happens when there is a need for a word to define something and no such word exists? Is “close enough” good enough? Untranslatable words are words from another language that can’t easily be translated into English. Download now to explore these words from faraway lands.
VIEW GUIDE NOW
THE MINDFUL AESTHETIC
Share this Guide: http://bit.ly/mindfulaesthetic
About this Guide: This word guide is built upon the principles of mindfulness. It presents philosophical words for you to ponder in your meditative practice. Let me start by quickly defining philosophy and the schools of thought within the discipline. You can also use a concept to focus on and let your mind explore its meaning. This article presents various philosophical ideas that you can use to focus your meditation on. These are deep and profound concepts from a variety of cultures that can introduce you to the beauty of life. Try reading through this list and pick a concept to explore. Bring it into your meditation and ponder it. You will begin to recognize and understand deeper meaning while training your mind to focus on one concept at a time.
VIEW GUIDE NOW
SEEKING MIDNIGHT MADNESS AND MERAKI
Share this Guide: http://bit.ly/midnightmeraki
About this Guide: Rastrophiliopustrocity is a spontaneous combustion of creative spark that fuels the creation of a new idea which you then take actions in order to produce the idea using your skill and tenacity. This word translates into the concept of CREATIVE FLOW in English. Most people are in bed asleep by midnight. But not creatives, innovators, artists or night thinkers. All around us there are writers, artists, painters, thinkers, poets, crafters, programmersb, designers, musicians and artisans creating, designing, building and thinking in the quiet stillness of a dark night under the inspiring influence of the moon and stars.
VIEW GUIDE NOW
DOWNLOAD THE ASSOCIATED BOOK
Defining New Ideas - Dictionary of Creativity, Innovation and Design