Beautiful Words

Heard this on NPR (yes, I say it again) this afternoon and it was great inspiration for all of the writing I am doing now and hope to do in 2012. It was also an even greater distraction from my strategic thoughts on how best to unpack after moving this past weekend. I see more listening in my future as I sift through all the stuff jamming up my new diggs!

The Leonard Lopate Show: Word maven Patricia T. O’Conner on beautiful words.

My chosen words today are ineffable (thanks to Deb Lohse), incandescent (thanks to Virginia Woolf), and effervescent (don’t you just want to be like what it sounds and means?). What words do you love to say?