Alternatives, Origins, Being Thankful, and Guest Posting at March of Time Books

Today I'm a guest at March of Time Books (formerly March House Books.) Hope you'll take a few moments to stop by to read about a few of my favorite childhood books!

Alternatives is a post in which I give synonyms for an over used word. Click on the tab above for a "complete" list of over used words.

Today's word is:

Watch it appear and disappear... I'm going to let you add your own "s" or "ed" for words such as dawns/dawned or change the tense for words such as arose or blew up.

Depending on how you use it, this list may come in handy for finding another way to say the same thing.

act, actualize, arise, arrive, attend

be apparent, be clear, be created, be developed, be evident, be invented, be manifest, be obvious, be patent, be plain, be present, be produced, be published, be published, be revealed, be within view, become apparent, become available, become evident, become visible, blossom, blow in, bob up, break, break out, break through, breeze in, bulk

check in, clock in, come, come across as, come forth, come into being, come into existence, come into sight, come into view, come off as, come on the market, come out, come to light, come/came across as being, commence, crop up

dawn, debut, develop, drop in

emerge, engender, erupt, expose

feel, form

get here/there, get in, get through, give/gave the impression of being, got on sale

happen

issue

land, look as if, look to be, loom

make, make the scene, manifest itself, materialize

occur, originate, outcrop

perform, play, pop in, pop up, present, punch in, punch the clock, put in an appearance

reappear, recur, rematerialize, resurface, ring in, rise, roll in

seem, seem to be, set in, shoot up, show, show one’s face, show up, sound, spring, start, strike someone as being, surface

time in, turn out, turn up

unfold

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I haven't included a video in a while but when I saw BREAK THROUGH as an alternative for appear, I immediately thought of Break on Through by The Doors.


You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run, Tried to hide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side, yeah

We chased our pleasures here
Dug our treasures there
But can you still recall
The time we cried
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side

Yeah! C'mon, year

Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby
She gets (high)
She gets (high)
She gets (high)
She gets (high)

I found an island in your arms
Country in your eyes
Arms that chain
Eyes that lie
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through, oww!
Oh, yeah!

Make the scene
Week to week
Day to day
Hour to hour
The gate is straight
Deep and wide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through
Break on through
Break on through
Break on through
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

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Origins is a post in which I delve into the history of a word or phrase.


Today's word is: DAWN
I chose this word because it's in the above list.

From the 1200 centuray word dauen, meaning "to dawn, grow light," which is a shortened form of dauinge or dauing meaning the "period between darkness and sunrise," which is from the Old English word dagung which comes from dagian meaning "to become day," which is from the Proto-Germanic word dagaz, "day" (which has the same ancestor as tagen meaning "to dawn.") Probably influenced from Scandinavian words such as the Danish dagan and Old Norse dagan, meaning "a dawning."

Being Thankful

Today I'm thankful for trees!

All kinds of trees. Here are a few from the islands.

 Kapok tree on St. John

 Rain tree at Cinnamon Bay National Park Camp Ground, St. John. My friend Margaret on the left, me on the right.

 One of two Baobab trees on St. Thomas that are several 100 years old.

An African tulip tree, St. Thomas

 Some of my classmates and me on a tree that was blown down in a storm many, many long years ago yet kept on growing.

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So, what are you thankful for? Any new ideas "dawning" on you? Got a favorite alternative for appear? How about, Morrison and his pouty look? I was definitely intrigued by him when I was teen.