Seeing as the name of my blog is MariaElena Adventures, I guess my first post should be about this adventure, blogging. It's not that I intend to fail, but lets just say, I don't have the intention of keeping up on a blog, which means I intend to fail, just with Panache (I've always loved that word, although I really don't understand the meaning. Oh well, what a brilliant use of vocabulary!) This sort of failed adventure definitely reminds me of my childhood; like when I was 5 (or perhaps it was 6? I've been through so many ages, I can't keep track) and I had a burning ambition to become a tight-rope walker. That's right. I was so determined, and I had it all! Where there's a will there's a way, right? Well, this lasted maybe all of 3 hours, because there was a point during this intense adventure where I realized serenity and true joy really only comes from eating strawberry popsicles, and it's 10x easier to convince your mom to take you to the store for said strawberry popsicles, than to set up a tight rope in your yard.
This ends the first post of this miraculous creation of mine, the blog.
Till next time!
~Get the ducks out of the yard, Maria Elena!~
Panache is just right for you :)
ReplyDeleteYou took the words out of my mouth, John! Panache was invented to describe someone like Maria. (Maria, read the play Cyrano de Bergerac. He loved the word too. His final words on his deathbed were: "... yet there is something still that will always be mine, and when I go to God's presence, there I'll doff it and sweep the heavenly pavement with a gesture — something I'll take unstained out of this world... my panache.")
ReplyDeleteOh, that's actually where I got the word, I just never took the time to figure out the definition! haha.
ReplyDeleteWe actually read it in honors Sophomore year, and the book we were reading translated it into english, so I asked to read Cyrano's part (we took turns reading the different characters) and I translated it back into "panache" when I read. Everyone was like "whaa? where did that come from!" haha.
Get the ducks out of the yard Maria!
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