Sunday, April 13, 2014

Feel the Ebullience!

Ebullient is totally one of my words. I know it without looking because I put in on my list of good words when I first made one, at around 12.

It means all sorts of lovely things: bubbling, effervescent (which is next week's word - also mine, also went on that adolescent list. detect a pattern here?), boiling over, overflowing with enthusiasm, high spirits, showing much exuberance or exhilaration.

I don't think I need to explain why I like it.

It's also apropos of this mid-April Sunday morning here in Santa Fe. The weather is warming and the desert is springing into green life. A wren has a nest outside my office window and she sings the loveliest trilling song. Yesterday I bought hanging baskets of flowers and their bright colors bring out the blue in the sky.

I associate "ebullient" with that adolescent time of life, too, when I felt full of high spirits and the world held infinite possibilities. On my best days, I reconnect with that, with that sensation of burgeoning sexuality and creativity. Like the flowers, I blossom in the sunshine, showing off my best and brightest colors.

Happy Spring!

6 comments:

  1. Never heard that word before. Will have to try to remember it.
    here spring is cold, grey and wet...

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    1. I wondered if you'd know that one, Sullivan. It's not commonly used, for sure.

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  2. I'm glad we're on an uptick with the darn words!

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    1. hells to the yes - welcome to the ebullient, effervescent, egregious, experimental and exquisite E's!

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  3. I think spring brings out the ebullience in everyone--unless they have nasty allergies. Still to see life springing up after all the drear is nice. We're about to have a litter of Great Dane puppies--any time. I'm not sure my mama Dane is looking or feeling ebullient, but I'm sure she'll be thrilled to off load the little guys.

    Sia McKye Over Coffee

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    1. ooh, poor Mama Dane - I hope the offload goes swimmingly!

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