A fire sparkling

Only 5 more love quotes to go in the 100 Things Blogging Challenge.I’ve been posting a little something from my chosen topic for nearly 100 days. I’m often so busy I sometimes neglect this blog for other things. Needless to say, making a commitment to blog 100 days at a time is good for me. When this challenge ends, I’ll do another.

Today I’m offering a little something from the Bard. I’ve said before Shakespeare and I go way back…lol no, I’m not that old.

My love of his works traces roots to an honors English class my freshman year in high school. The teacher, compelled by the spelling of my last name, sat me right next to the scale model of Shakespeare’s Globe Theater and the stack of corresponding books I could read if I finished my work before the bell rang. I’ve always been a very fast reader with quick comprehension of the written word so the Bard and I had lots of time together.

As I recall, most of my classmates hated Shakespeare because the language often takes time to interpret. Understanding what he was getting at never gave me trouble, even though he often made up words out of thin air. You have to take the scene as a whole. Once you do that, it all makes beautiful and poetic sense. Shakespeare adherents claim nearly 2000 never-seen-before words came out of that brilliant mind of his, and he often tweaked words. Example: taking a noun and making it a verb of it. Here are just a few we wouldn’t have today if not for his imagination:

academe * accused * addiction * advertising * amazement * arouse * assassination * backing * bandit * bedroom * beached * besmirch * birthplace * blanket * bloodstained *barefaced * blushing * bet * bump * buzzer * caked * cater * champion * circumstantial * cold-blooded *compromise *courtship *countless *critic *dauntless* dawn* deafening *discontent *dishearten* drugged* dwindle *epileptic* equivocal *elbow *excitement *exposure eyeball *fashionable *fixture* flawed* frugal* generous* gloomy *gossip *green-eyed *gust *hint* hobnob *hurried *impede* impartial* invulnerable* jaded* label *lackluster* laughable *lonely *lower *luggage *lustrous *madcap *majestic *marketable*mimic *monumental *moonbeam *mountaineer *negotiate *noiseless *obscene *obsequiously *ode *Olympian *outbreak *panders* pedant *premeditated *puking *radiance *rant *remorseless *savagery *scuffle *secure *skim milk *sparkling *submerge *summit *swagger *torture *tranquil *undress *unreal *varied *vaulting *worthless *zany* gnarled* grovel*

Word lover that I am, I fully appreciate his genius. I’ve used these words in my life and in my writing. Not having them would mean a little less color to our language.

Here’s a love quote for today:

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a

fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.”

~ William Shakespeare
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I’ve been posting one vintage card each day and plan to keep it up from now until January. Today I’m posting two.

Here’s one from the British Empire. Notice all the flags. And below, a pair of holiday pooches.

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