Pounding The Keyboard

       Yesterday, April 20, 2022 was the first birthday (or barkday) of our dog, a beagle named Kylo. A dog's first year is equivalent to fifteen human years, so they say. We took him home from his original owner last June, 2021, when he was just almost two months old and was very small and fragile. But he’s grown to be a playful, sweet, friendly pet who loves to cuddle and kiss (lick actually) and play fetch and tug of war.  His foremost hobby is to look out the window and observe (and sometimes mock) humanity and their fragility, and yes, also to bark at cats and other dogs.      He continues to make our home a happier place.  But like other pets, he could be stubborn, too. He could also be scaredy, too and suspicious. He also has this habit of still mouthing you when you annoy him or he wants something that you’re not giving because you actually don’t understand him.      So, yesterday, I asked him his birthday wish.     “Arf! Arf! Arf! Woooff!” he barked and bayed ent

  It's only words and words are all I have To take your heart away …        So I learned two new words today, slang words, actually: shower and grower. And every male is either of the two. I am definitely a grower. Lol.      Anyway, I saw this discussion on how to expand your vocabulary. My vocabulary these days isn’t really wide, but when I was still studying, I would often try to expand it, like there were pages on my notebook allotted for beguiling and sagacious or erudite words. You know, words that often flabbergast you and discombobulate you at the same time. Every day, I’d write a word that is abstruse to me, profound but not so profound and unfathomable, ones you can wield in actual parley. The word e phemeral, for example, and would try to memorize it the whole day, and then, I would try to use it: Ephemeral is not the word to describe my love for you, my beloved. Perdurable is the word, or indissoluble.      And my imaginary girlfriend would no doubt swoon over

Life is better with a kiss Love is sweeter with a kiss Two lovebirds kissing Two lovebirds proving Love, not money Is what makes the world go round, honey Two lovebirds singing Two lovebirds swinging In the hammock above Swaying with love.