creative writing: Word of the day

Anomaly – abnormality; anything inconsistent or odd.

Discomfit - to frustrate, thwart, or embarrass.

Refurbish - To make clean, bright, or fresh again; renovate.

Collaborate -

1. To work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort.
2. To cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.

Nurture - to nourish or help grow

Is the way we are nature or nurture?

Are we born with our quirks and identity?

Do we learn to be all that we are?

It’s an argument that will rage for infinity

A combination of things makes you and me

Genetics, experience, reaction, success, a mistake

We grow and change with each passing moment

Gratuitous – given freely or without cause

Free love, a trip to back to hippies, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll

The advent of the birth control pill, giving us sexual liberty

The Beatles, Hendrix, the Rolling Stones

Is that really what gave us our identity?

Gratuitous sex was that really something new?

Passion for pleasure surely we could not be the first

To feel the delights, to reach the dizzy heights,

Of sating need, desire, quenching lust’s thirst...

Demure-

1. Modest and reserved in manner or behavior.
2. Affectedly shy, modest, or reserved.

1. 1. The ethical doctrine that morality has its foundations in self-interest.
   2. The ethical belief that self-interest is the just and proper motive for all human conduct.
2. Excessive preoccupation with one's own well-being and interests, usually accompanied by an inflated sense of self-importance.
3. Egotism; conceit.

Intuitive - known directly, without apparent thought or effort.

Williwaw - 1 a sudden gust of wind
2 a sudden violent wind
3 a violent commotion