about this dappled journal

dap-pled [dap-uhld] - adjective having spots of a different shade, tone, or color from the background; mottled. Welcome to my journal of dappled ponderings. Here you’ll find some random, unusual, and perhaps interesting thoughts . . . humanities, causalities, curiosities, anomalies, oddities, issuities, pet peevities – anything at all that captures the fleeting attention of my most inquisitive mind. A place only the brave dare trod. Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fres-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced — fold, fallow, and plough; And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise Him. (G.M. Hopkins)