Sharna

Events Administrator • Linguist • Artist • ‘there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so’

[Aki Schilz @AkiSchilz]

I was never reckless with
your heart, only mine.
You know this, don't you?
So if you feel I have broken something,
consider: when have I shown you
that I did not care? If you wish to
unlearn me, I will let myself
unravel, but each strip of me
still loves you. I tell it to the sky

[Sharna @sharna717]

Atmospheric Camping

[Sharna @sharna717]

Getting there

[stuart murdoch @nee_massey]

A peaceful riposte to my last post, a minute or so of beautiful beach and nature x

[Sharna @sharna717]

It is a beautiful thing
spending an evening with my guitar
watching clouds pass over the moon
letting the notes ring true
as the sky sinks into its jammy summer ooze, all reds and soft blues
with cloudy wisps dusting the glow
of a yellow crescent moon
kept company by a lone star.

[Sharna @sharna717]

Goosebumps https://t.co/SzHeFM7YQp

[Sharna @sharna717]

Bloom at sunset, aviations, a beautiful book, and a crescent moon… you asked me to look for the moon

[Ian Duhig FRSL @ianduhig]

The poet reviews her words before setting out on her final draft of a new poem.

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿InsideLucysHead🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿© @InsideLucysHead]

In the English language, the word...

"pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"

has the most number of syllables at 19.

This narrowly beats the runner-up, "Gloria" which has 18 syllables

[Sharna @sharna717]

I can’t shake these dreams. They linger long after waking, as if waiting to reclaim me the moment I sink back into the duvet…

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Hey ding-dongs, let’s have a chit-chat about Ablaut reduplication.

If you have three words, the order usually goes 'I-A-O.'
-tic-tac-toe

If there are only two words, ‘I’ is the first and the second is either ‘A’ or ‘O.’
-click-clack
-King-Kong

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

NEWS 🚨: NASA is allowing anyone to send their name around the Moon aboard the Artemis II mission!

All names will be stored on an SD card and placed inside the Orion spacecraft, the agency says

Last day to submit your name is Jan. 21 🗓️🌕

[Sharna @sharna717]

I have always felt that this view was, at least in some part, a little bit mine

[Sharna @sharna717]

A very fitting first page…

[Durham Cathedral @durhamcathedral]

Snowy Durham drone view ❄️

Thank you to Graeme Hall for this photo 📷

[Paliparan @PaliparanDotCom]

To get back to my native home country of the Netherlands for Christmas this year, I decided to travel by train all the way instead of flying. The journey started with an old favourite, the 'Corona' night train from Brașov to Budapest with its East German sleeper coach from 1985..

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

“If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!

“Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”

[Durham Cathedral @durhamcathedral]

Happy Christmas from Durham Cathedral!