Whimsy

There are a lot of words that aren’t used a lot in the dictionary, and today I want to focus on one in particular, whimsy. The American Heritage Dictionary gives two definitions.

1) An odd, or fanciful idea. A whim.
2) A quaint and fanciful quality.

There are other definitions in other dictionaries that art not as flattering. I’ve always liked the word whimsy. (That won’t surprise any of my friends.) I think in the day of twenty-four slash seven coverage of everything that we are too focused on the facts. (I could dispute whether those are really facts at all, but that’s another post.) A little more whimsy in our lives would be a good stress relief from this constant coverage. So please, take whimsy back out and use it. Take it around the block. Show others its good qualities, and maybe we can get some of that magic back in our everyday lives.