Kathleen urged me to join the alphabet blogging challenge. Since no one reads my blog I am sure no will notice I have started. The bloggers are on N today so I have 14 entries to catch up. I have decided, although I am quite sure I am not going to like it, to open the dictionary and select a word or phrase from the page I happen upon. I am going to keep that up until I hit N and then choose my own word from P onward.
I opened to the spread that started with ancestry and ended with angle of incidence. Turns out I think angle of incidence is interesting. In case you don't know exactly what angle of incidence means, here's the definition (but I promise I won't type the definition in every entry - wonder if there is a word length in this challenge?): the angle that a line (as a ray of light) falling on a surface makes with a perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence. In other words, shoot a beam straight at a piece of paper (or a mirror). The angle that the light bounces off the surface is the angle of incidence.
If you do shoot a beam of light directly at a perfect mirror (I am sort of making this up) the ray will bounce straight back making a 180° angle (I think!). So what? This has great meaning for me. I tend to be the kind of person who learns things the hard way, one step forward, two steps back in the exact opposite direction. Just like Bruce Springsteen.
The angles of incidence in my life have been BIG. Like getting stood up at the altar (could have used that as topic for A), becoming a mother and then not, throwing myself into teaching and bouncing out of that like ants out of a flooding ant hole. There are more. But I think that's enough for A.
Perhaps this random letter selection is going to work for me. Except I would like to up the funny quotient.
I opened to the spread that started with ancestry and ended with angle of incidence. Turns out I think angle of incidence is interesting. In case you don't know exactly what angle of incidence means, here's the definition (but I promise I won't type the definition in every entry - wonder if there is a word length in this challenge?): the angle that a line (as a ray of light) falling on a surface makes with a perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence. In other words, shoot a beam straight at a piece of paper (or a mirror). The angle that the light bounces off the surface is the angle of incidence.
If you do shoot a beam of light directly at a perfect mirror (I am sort of making this up) the ray will bounce straight back making a 180° angle (I think!). So what? This has great meaning for me. I tend to be the kind of person who learns things the hard way, one step forward, two steps back in the exact opposite direction. Just like Bruce Springsteen.
The angles of incidence in my life have been BIG. Like getting stood up at the altar (could have used that as topic for A), becoming a mother and then not, throwing myself into teaching and bouncing out of that like ants out of a flooding ant hole. There are more. But I think that's enough for A.
Perhaps this random letter selection is going to work for me. Except I would like to up the funny quotient.
Cracked up at the Boss reference. I never realized how similar you two were until now, so this blog is already paying off.
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