Brevities!

GreenYellow lights like lightning bugs flickering
Ice melting
Knees jiggling
TV background noises
Heat-wave reflecting on wall
Felix comes to greet me
Now he's gone!
Brevities!

Adagio Molto

Rippling scales
Sweet, stately harmonies
Long, liesurely phrases
High arching phrases from deep, deep bass line
Simple fundamental melody
Enchanting
Stilling
I'm breathing deeper, listening to
Beethoven's Adagio molto, Opus 10, No. 1, 2nd movement

Laudāre

Laúdō
Laúdās
Laúdat
Laudámus
Laudátis
Laúdant

Alt Plus Blue Fn Key!

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Wheeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
I finally figured it out!
On my laptop, since I don't have a separate numbers pad, in order to use the keystroke codes from the character map, I have to hold down alt AND the blue Fn key WHILE I type the blue numbers on the alpha pad. I.e. I can't use the number row above the alpha pad for these codes.

Now, is this actually easier or quicker than cutting and pasting? 'Don't know! Probably won't be at first, but I imagine eventually it will, and meanwhile, even if it never will, I'd rather use keystrokes because I'd rather keep typing while writing!

Cut & Paste from Character Map?

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Having to copy and paste from a character map is RIDICULOUS!!!
The map tells me the key strokes, but I can't get that to work! Arg!

Special Fonts

http://www.omniglot.com/mlcomputing/diacrits_win.htm#win

Typing w/ accents and macrons

I'm wondering how I'm going to manage writing Latin exercises here when I need to be able to apply accents and macrons.  In the textbook they are applied directly above the vowel.  Were I to use ' or ^ they would follow.  I'm like to keep italics and bolds in reserve for normal use of them.  Hmmm....

Latin Study

Initial lessons in Latin are more challenging than I thought they would be! When I've studied other languages, we started w/ listening to conversations, then speaking them (mostly by rote), then speaking them more freely, then writing, THEN analysing!!!

Wheelock starts w/ analysis!!! Ugh! He assumes the adult beginner would prefer this. Not me! But I'm going to try anyway. I like it that our first verb to conjugate is Laudare! To praise! I can practice using this verb in prayer, praising Abba!

Laudo Te, Abba!!! ('haven't learned the "te" yet; just guessing!)

The Challenge Of Seeing

I think I first see the complexity of things. And then I like to reflect until I can see an underlying simple or whole meaning. But so much of life seems mostly complex to me. It's really hard to find things I can see as simple enough or static enough for me to even attempt a discription of "what is" because I anticipate there will be too much to say, and all the words in the world are not enough to convey most things, let alone experiences, thoughts, feelings, relationships.