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On the way…

Envisioning comes more easily to me with a musical accompaniment. Here’s an ever-changing playlist built in anticipation of the climb. It’s music for beforehand, as we’re working our way up to working our way up. Later, our steps will lead us to the top and back again.

Why these songs?

Most of them came from the suggestions Spotify offers. Okay, well actually, most of the songs on this playlist come from rejecting those offerings.

Running Up That Hill – Kate Bush

Not quite running, even though it might feel like it.

I Like To Move It – will.i.am

Although some say they climb a mountain “because it’s there”, I think of this as continued motion that happens to include a lot of vertical movement.

Every Day I’m Shuffling – DJ Veyron

We will hear “pole pole” more than once before we get to the top. Might as well practice now.

The Lion Sleeps Tonight – The Tokens

We mave mixed feelings about seeing wildlife at the lower altitudes. I think we can agree that we hope to see them before they see us.

Everybody’s Got a Mountain to Climb – Allman Brothers Band

No, we didn’t choose every song with the word “mountain” in the title. This is an inspiring song. We can all use some inspiration. Listen to it.

It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘N’ Roll) – AC/DC

Another song about vertical displacement. Or something.

Higher Ground – Stevie Wonder

There are higher aspirations than reaching a certain elevation. Truly noble ones!

I Want To Take You Higher – Sly and The Family Stone

Because it’s the first 19,000 feet that are the toughest, and why set limits?

Celebration – Kool & The Gang

Are you surprised to see this here?

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Even more Dan Nesses

You think they’re not so everyday, but they keep popping up all over. There’s a Dan Ness that’s an artist in Portland, who’s also been in Berlin, Finland, Massachusetts, and Japan. There’s at least one Dan Ness who’s a realtor in Minnesota.

There are even companies with the Ness name. One that rents cranes doesn’t seem to have anyone working there with the name. Seems odd to have Ness Crane without a Ness.

it’s a great group, and maybe we ought to form a club!

Or how about a disambiguation page?

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Haiku for COVID times

A neighbor invited many to offer some haiku for the times of the COVID-19 virus.

Here are some of mine.

Infectious laugh.
A lovely gliding boat ride.
One cough. Birds scatter!

Shining summertime.
Boats glide across the water.
But first, healthy masks.

Boat parties sound fun!
One bad, sudden cough erupts!
Long swim to dry shore.

Springtime flowers bloom.
The birds are happy this year.
Don’t they watch the news?

I choose healthy food,
Solid news sources, good friends.
Why carry ill will?

Extra time at home.
Time for those resolutions?
Maybe tomorrow.

Quarantine Haiku?
Westerners as Asian bards?
Let’s write limericks!

New word for the year
Epidemiologist.
Look ma! I can spell.

Cheap seats on airplanes?
Cruise ship discounts? Low rent inns?
Don’t pay in advance.

Eager shoppers beg.
Long-haired, long-nailed patrons plea.
Now? Are we there yet?

Fast reopening.
The early bird gets the bug.
I’m no canary.

Point right, left, East, West.
Blaming fingers miss the mark.
Focus on the bug.

Five, seven, five beats.
Are Haiku our heart’s rhythm?
Or just stutter poems?

Think outside the box.
Boundaries separate us.
We’re in the same boat.

Free ride on the lake?
Best to take a solo ride.
Not for me. No thanks.

 

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So many nessness of -ness – a

Some words ending in ness

abrasiveness
abruptness
absoluteness
abstemiousness
abstractedness
abstractness
abstruseness
absurdness
acceptableness
acquisitiveness
acridness
activeness
acuteness
adeptness
adequateness
adhesiveness
admirableness
adorableness
adroitness
advantageousness
adventurousness
affableness
affectedness
affectionateness
agedness
agelessness
aggressiveness
agreeableness
agribusiness
aimlessness
airiness
airsickness
airworthiness
alertness
aliveness
allusiveness
aloneness
aloofness
altitude sickness
amateurishness
amativeness
ambidextrousness (well beyond a right-handed compliment)
ambitiousness
amiableness
amicableness
amorousness
ampleness
ancientness
angriness
anomalousness
answerableness
anxiousness
apparentness
appreciativeness
apprehensiveness
appropriateness
aptness
arbitrariness
archness
arduousness
aridness
arlineness
artfulness
articulateness
artlessness
assertiveness
assiduousness
assuredness
astuteness
attainableness
attentiveness
attractiveness
audaciousness
audibleness
auspiciousness
austereness
availableness
averageness
awareness
awfulness
awkwardness

connectedness

timelessness

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Do Words Define Us?

Here are some words that emerged when I did.

Gotta love some of these – happy camper, fantabulous, overarousal, self-definition, smiley face, t distribution, and Zen-like.

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Exercise

Posterior tibial tendon strengthening

Calf wall stretch

Short foot exercise

Plantar fascia stretch

Toe lifts

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Words that rhyme with Ness

In case you’ve found yourself looking for words that rhyme with ness, consider using Rhymezone, or take a look at this list:

1 syllable:
‘s, -less, -ness, bess, besse, bless, bress, bresse, cesse, ches, chess, cress, desse, dress, es, ess, esse, fess, fesse, fress, gess, gesse, ghess, gless, gress, guess, hess, hesse, jess, kess, kless, kness, kress, kresse, lecce, les, less, lesse, mess, messe, nes, nesse, pesce, pless, press, press’, presse, ques, ress, s, s., SNES (as many people pronounce it), stress, tess, thess, tress, vess, wes, wess, yes

2 syllables:
abscess, access, accresce, address, adpress, adresse, aggress, almesse, altesse, amess, assess, attests, cabesse, caress, cheese press, compress, concresce, confess, contests, de-access, depress, digests, digress, distress, drop press, duchesse, egress, ellesse, etess, excess, express, express’, finesse, fluoresce, forbess, frondesce, full dress, goldress, headdress, impress, ines, ingress, in esse, jeunesse, kermesse, kubes, l’express, land cress, largesse, ls, lutece, lyness, marsh cress, misguess, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, payless, porpesse, portesse, possess, prepress, process, profess, progress, protests, punch press, recess, redress, regress, repress, requests, rock cress, siese, simplesse, spring cress, stone cress, success, suppress, the press, transgress, ts, tumesce, undress, unless, word stress, SNES (at least the way I pronounce it…)

3 syllables:
abs, acquiesce, belle isle cress, bitter cress, bouncing bess, c. b. s., catholicness, cbs, ccs, coalesce, cocktail dress, contactless, convalesce, cps, deliquesce, dinner dress, disk access, dispossess, diving dress, downy chess, dss, e. d. s., faithfulness, g. p. s., garden cress, garlic press, gps, h. h. s., i. n. s., i. r. s., intumesce, inverness, irs, lcs, letterpress, lyonnesse, meadow cress, more or less, morning dress, nonetheless, o. a. s., oas, overdress, p. b. s., plant process, printing press, public press, purple cress, reassess, recrudesce, refenes, reinvests, repossess, rocket cress, room access, scs, sentence stress, sms, sos, standing press, street address, t. b. s., tower cress, u. s. s., unkindness, uss, watercress, wedding dress, winter cress, with success

4 syllables:
abts, adss, body process, carbon process, civilian dress, cmos, durable press, hces, human process, hydraulic press, incline bench press, indian cress, japanese chess, name and address, nevertheless, officer’s mess, permanent press, printing process, return address, rotary press, solvay process, stds, tcas, transverse process, work in progress, ws

5 syllables:
american cress, bessemer process, bodily process, common garden cress, common watercress, computer address, cyanide process, damsel in distress, early winter cress, fractional process, freedom of the press, garden pepper cress, linguistic process, memory access, military press, mountain watercress, organic process, right to due process, service of process, surreptitiousness, unconscious process, yellow watercress

6 syllables:
alveolar process, economic process, metabolic process

7 syllables:
american watercress, basic cognitive process, geological process, higher cognitive process, mathematical process, pathological process, valedictory address

8 syllables:
psychoanalytic process, representational process

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A different Dan In Real Life (yet not really that different)

Dan In Real Life (the movie)
Dan In Real Life (the movie)

Quotes from the movie “Dan In Real Life”

Dan Burns: “Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised.”

Dan Burns: “You know that feeling in your heart? When your heart is just pounding, like it’s actually outside your ribs. Exposed, vulnerable, but wonderful and awful, and heartsick, and alive, all at the same time?”

Dan Burns: “What don’t I understand, Cara? Please, help me out. What is it? Is it frustrating that you can’t be with this person? That there’s something keeping you apart? That there’s something about this person that you can connect with? And whenever you’re near this person, you don’t know what to say, and you say everything that’s in your mind and in your heart, and you know that if you could just be together, that this person would help you become the best possible version of yourself?”

Marie: “I’m looking for a book… something that can help me deal with what might be an awkward situation. Something funny might be nice, but not necessarily big, ‘ha, ha, ha,’ ‘laugh, laugh, laugh’ funny, and certainly not make-fun-of-other-people funny but rather something human-funny. And, uh, if it could uh, sneak up on you, surprise you, and at the same time make you think that what you thought wasn’t only right, in a wrong kind of way, but when you’re wrong, there’s a certain rightness in your wrongness… Well, what I mean is, more importantly, I’m looking to be swept up! And at the same time, not.”
Dan Burns: “Well, you rarely find all that in one book.”

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