Energy images...

6 April 2022: Two statements I heard today that made me marvel at the poetry we hear in everyday language--and both were about energy.

1) A little girl having walked up the two flights of Knutti steps, telling her mother, "My legs are out of breath!" 

2) A student showing me the pages she generated quite quickly last night: "I got a splurge of energy..." I liked this one because it was a sort of portmanteau (splurge/surge) and malapropism that still works--like, she had fun writing those pages, like you would splurging on something.