I drew St. Hildegard if she was a cat

prints

Favorite chair

Painting of the northern lights, as observed from Finland, in 1901, by the Danish painter Harald Moltke (1871-1960)

Greeting scrunge

Earlier today I had a fun moment where I had a thought, and then realized I could express that thought in Valya! Not that I know the language well enough to actually think in it in the moment, but I knew I had all the words and bits of grammar to express it.

Or, almost. I forgot that I didn’t actually have a word for “door,” but now I do: ntfüri It’s derived from the word for “swing,” as in “something that swings open” (or really “something that is swung open”).

Lbahwi zaku kinksi bigamuftara, ra ga mirgngi tu kiksuftara twashi kintfüri.

“Before I went outside to shovel, I saw a wren on the shovel just outside the door.”

It was a Carolina wren, one of my favorite birds, and it’s always nice to see one up close!