touches of sense... - 1 views
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looked up at me
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Terry Elliott on 09 Dec 14Jazz divines your intention, your attention.
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just Jazz
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"Why had I stopped?"
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freedom is framed
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All means of capture: camera, phone, pen, paper, I had left at home.
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There he was again, questioning, "What are we doing?" "Is this where will stay?" "Will we stay here for ever?"
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patient impatience
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"What was that?" "What made that noise?" "Where was it?" "Is it safe?"
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A few yards on, the clouds were becoming rather menacing. I felt a few spots of rain. There were gusts of winds rustling the surviving leaves on the trees.
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the sky seemed to have fallen onto the path.
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puddlestruck
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watching the stories span out
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There is something comforting, something animistic in meeting those we have never met outside of a screen in a puddle-journey...
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ingenuity
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ingenuity (ɪndʒɪˈnjuːɪtɪ) [ad. L. ingenuitās the condition of a free-born man, noble-mindedness, frankness, f. ingenu-us ingenuous: cf. F. ingénuité (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), It. ingenuità (Florio, 1598), possibly the immediate source. The employment of the word as the abstract n. from ingenious (for ingeniosity or *ingeniety) appears to be confined to Eng. and is connected with the confusion of the two adjs. in the 17th c.: see ingenious II and ingenuous 6.] I.I Senses connected with ingenuous. †1.I.1 The condition of being free-born; honourable extraction or station. Obs. 1598 Florio, Ingenuita, freedome or free state, ingenuitie, a liberall, free, or honest nature and condition. 1614 Selden Titles Hon. Pref. C ij, Ingenuitie, not Nobilitie, was designed by the three Names. 1614 Raleigh Hist. World v. iii. §16. 705 Such other tokens of ingenuity for his wife and children as every one did use. 1638 F. Junius Paint. of Ancients 254 The noble Art‥being forced to seek her bread without any ingenuitie, after the manner of other sordide, mechanike, and mercenarie Arts. 1658 Phillips s.v., Ingenuity is taken for a free condition or state of life. †b.I.1.b The quality that befits a free-born person; high or liberal quality (of education); hence, Liberal education, intellectual culture (cf. II). Obs. a 1661 Fuller Worthies (1840) II. 214 He intended it for a seminary of religion and ingenuity. 1662 Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. ii. ii. §1 He [Moses] was brought up in the Court of Ægypt, and‥was skilled in all the learning of the Ægyptians; and these‥ prove the ingenuity of his education. †2.I.2 Nobility of character or disposition; honourableness, highmindedness, generosity. Obs. 1598 [see sense 1]. 1603 Florio Montaigne ii. viii. (1632) 215, I should have loved to have stored their mind with ingenuity and liberty. a 1638 Mede Wks. (1672) i. xxxii. 1
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'education' in the dark ages
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an infallible model
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Preamble.
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wayside
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Such wastage
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learning ecologies of the time