06/06/2010: "I am excessively diverted."

"I am excessively diverted."

That's what Elizabeth Bennet said in Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice. She was diverted by the report of a forthcoming marriage proposal. I am diverted, on a daily basis, by almost anything at all.

Divert as defined in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary:
1. to turn from one course or use to another
2. to give pleasure to especially by distracting the attention from what burdens or distresses

"I am excessively diverted."

Three morals in this story:

1. Jane Austen lives in my head and my language is richer for it.
2. We are easily diverted from our chosen course.
3. But diverted is such a pleasurable thing to be.

Yours with creativity and imagination,
Darlene