Flamboyant

In the street where I spent my childhood there was a beautiful tree. I used to contemplate it and observe its movements and changes. The time I loved most was when the flowers were bright and thus the tree was complete, whole. At that time I did not know its name.

When I grew up I came to know it was called flamboyant. And exactly today I found out that there are other definitions for the word flamboyant. So it does not only describe my awe-inspiring and admirable tree. When I learned the name of that beautiful tree I thought that it was just perfect and unique and I could never have imagined it could mean other things. Well, I was wrong!

Look what I have discovered:

It is a flower beetle - Eudicella gralli.

It is a cuttlefish - Metasepia pfefferi, also known as Pfeffer's Flamboyant Cuttlefish.

It is a style of gothic architecture.

There are at least two songs called Flamboyant. One of them is sung by Pet Shop Boys, a band I loved when I was younger. I still do.

Isn't it fascinating how humans can create words? How we can associate words with images, animals, trees, sounds and a myriad of things. It is my firm belief that it is not by pure chance that we were created in His own image, in the image of God.

And look up the word in the dictionary:

The magnificent flamboyant

The magnificent flamboyant
Delonix Regis or Royal Poinciana

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ISAAC NEWTON

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Quotations by Sir William Shakespeare, The Bard, e minhas traduções

  • Be great in act, as you have been in thought.Seja grandioso em suas acões assim como você tem sido em seus pensamentos.
  • Action is eloquence.Ação é eloquência.
  • I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.
  • Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
  • God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
  • Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.A glória é como um círculo na água, Que nunca pára de alargar-se, Até que de tanto se espalhar Se dispersa em nada.