A Serious Lack of Priorities

victoriousvocabulary:

DOWNTRODDEN

[adjective]

1. tyrannised over; oppressed.

2. trodden, down; trampled upon.

Etymology: ‘down’ - Middle English doune, Old English dūne, aphetic variant of adūne + ‘trodden’ - Middle English treden, Old English tredan; cognate with Old Frisian treda, Old Saxon tredan, Dutch treden, German treten; akin to Old Norse trotha, Gothic trudan; (noun) Middle English tred - footprint.

[Amjad Rasmi]

victoriousvocabulary:

MONDSCHEIN

[noun]

German: moonshine; moonlight; usually der Mondschein.

[Anne Sudworth]

travelingcolors:

Crater Lake Sunrise | Oregon (by Deb Harder)

travelingcolors:

París from Montparnasse Tower | France (by Jesús Sánchez Ibáñez)

victoriousvocabulary:

MYCORISE [aka MYCORIZE]

[verb]

1. to study fungi.

2. to collect fungi.

[Margarita Sheshukova]

victoriousvocabulary:

PAVONATED

[adjective]

1. peacock blue.

2. coloured like a peacock.

Etymology: from the Latin pāvō - peacock.

[Song Gum Jin]

spiritualevolution1111:

“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”

~ Andrews Boyd

Artist: Sarah Meech

victoriousvocabulary:

MERKWELT

[noun]

the merkwelt (German: Merkwelt, meaning “way of viewing the world”, “peculiar individual consciousness”) is a concept in robotics, ethology and biology that describes a creature or android’s capacity to view things, manipulate information and synthesise to make meaning out of the universe. In biology, for example, a shark’s merkwelt for instance is dominated by smell due to its enlarged olfactory lobes whilst a bat’s is dominated by its hearing, especially at ultrasonic frequencies. 

[Paul Rumsey]