December 18, 2007

Angel Scrabble

You are looking at one of my favorite Christmas gifts ever. I absolutely love to play Scrabble. Some days I'm pretty good at it, and other days I can't get past words like fat, tar, rim, and the like.

Aside from playing the game, I just love how the smooth wooden tiles feel in my hands while I sift through them contemplating my next move. So a few years ago, when I opened my Christmas present and it was a bowl full of Scrabble tiles, I was thrilled. Mike had bought at least four or five games to get enough letters to fill a little crystal bowl. No gameboard -- just a bowl full of letters.

I've kept it on my desk ever since, like a wordsmith's little zen garden. Sometimes I leave out a new vocabulary word, other times a cryptic messages for those who enter my office when I'm not around. Occasionally my co-workers play with them or play jokes like removing all the vowels.

And once in a great while the angels visit to play, reminding us to be in awe of the season.

Maybe diamonds really are overrated after all.

December 18, 2007

Angel Scrabble

You are looking at one of my favorite Christmas gifts ever. I absolutely love to play Scrabble. Some days I'm pretty good at it, and other days I can't get past words like fat, tar, rim, and the like.

Aside from playing the game, I just love how the smooth wooden tiles feel in my hands while I sift through them contemplating my next move. So a few years ago, when I opened my Christmas present and it was a bowl full of Scrabble tiles, I was thrilled. Mike had bought at least four or five games to get enough letters to fill a little crystal bowl. No gameboard -- just a bowl full of letters.

I've kept it on my desk ever since, like a wordsmith's little zen garden. Sometimes I leave out a new vocabulary word, other times a cryptic messages for those who enter my office when I'm not around. Occasionally my co-workers play with them or play jokes like removing all the vowels.

And once in a great while the angels visit to play, reminding us to be in awe of the season.

Maybe diamonds really are overrated after all.