"INFINITE OREGANO" and other matters.

[browngirl]

Boom de yadda, boom de yadda, boom de yadda, boom de yadda...

Yes, I'm in a ridiculously cheerful mood, for the most part. Hopefully I'm not tempting fate.

Women can be so very pretty. This morning I talked to a lovely girl at the bus stop, her hair black ringlets, her skin golden and smooth, and her shoes composed of silver sequined straps that glittered on her feet. Her bag was silver sequins too, and I usually could care less about handbags but the match was really cute, especially with her dress, which was black with a pattern of little white lozenges, a calmer version of sequins. My description sounds garish, but she was adorable; next time I'm making up OCs I shall remember her.

Via hitchhiker I learned a new term: Mudita, "rejoicing in others' good fortune." Which reminds me once again that one of these days I should really learn something about Buddhism in a sensible and organized manner, and also makes me wonder how one might use this in an English-language sentence.

I had something else to babble about, but I forgot it, so let me finish with INFINITE OREGANO: "Cooking with the Dungeons & Dragons Crowd". *giggle*

Here's hoping my mental skies stay sunny.

Comments

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

Let o = happiness of others
Let s = happiness of self

o --> s: mudita
!o --> s: schadenfreude
o --> !s: envy
!o -->!s: empathy

Words are lovely, as are you.

[lomedet.livejournal.com]

wow. that's an incredibly elegant arrangement. *puts in personal memory, as well as the LJ ones*

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly. I think it's a symptom of not getting enough sleep, but I'm strangely at peace with that.

[brownbetty]

♥

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Thank you for introducing me to "mudita." One good thing is that I will never again have to use the word compersion, which seems to piss people off far beyond reason.

[lomedet.livejournal.com]

hee. when I graduated last year, my dad kept expressing what he was feeling as 'mudita'. Of course, there was probably a wee bit of schlepping naches (yiddish for "pride and/or happiness at the accomplishments of other, especially if they're children or grandchildren') in there as well.

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

LOL! I love your chirpy moods! ;))

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

I've just changed the name of my flist to Mudita. Because that really is the purpose of my flist - to bring me happiness through the happiness of other people.

[papervolcano]

I've been ready to spit nails today, but you're just infectiously cheerful :D

Thanks for the new word too!

[anisosynchronic.livejournal.com]

Infinite oregano--my front yard resembles that.
The stuff spreads and I let it because until this year it was major butterfly attractant and provided pollen for bee food. There's not a skipper butterfly to be found in it this year and barely a bee.

I suspect Lawn Chemicals... which are suspected to raise breast cancer rates, among other noxious characteristics.