Mist - I am working at a school that is in a commune about 25 minutes away from where I live. My commute includes a 10 minute shuttle ride and a 15 minute walk. The shuttle drops me off near a boucherie where a singular man cuts down thick slabs of red meat for eventual afternoon patrons and a pâtisserie which one of my coworkers told me was shutdown for a period of time for due to cleanliness concerns. She no longer frequents the establishment; nevertheless, I am a fan of the pâtisserie’s 1€-and-some-change croissants. I eat my breakfast (not always a croissant; recently, a spotted banana, vanilla yogurt, a peanut butter Cliff bar brought from the states) in the grove that bisects my route before I finish the rest of my walk to work. I was trying to describe to someone the atmospheric situation of my morning walk and found I didn’t know the French word for mist. I tried to describe the sensation of the weather circularly instead to get them to understand what I was referring to. The French word for mist is la brume.
La brume: Les petites pièces de l’eau glacées dans l’air.
Mist: Droplets of water in hanging the air.
Reverberation - I love synthesizers and James Blake’s work. I’m learning about audio mixing. I’m continuing to collect sounds. Everything feels like music. The word reverberation is on the mind, along with other auditory effects. The French word for reverberation is la réverbération, and I wonder which language is an echo of the other.
La réverbération: la resonance on peut trouve dans le poumon plein de deuxièmes inspirations légers du corps, souffles volés colorés avec ces autres échos, de fatigue, de soulagement, de larmes.
Reverberation: The resonance one might find in the lung teeming with the body’s second, smaller inhales, stolen breaths tinted with those other echos, of exhaustion, of relief, of tears.
Afterlife - My aunt passed away last week. There’s a lot I don’t know about the afterlife, including how to say it in any tongue other than English. The French word for afterlife is l'au-delà. (Direct translation: the beyond.)
L'au-delà: Le récompense ou l’accord ou le dissipation soudain d'interférence ou « l’ou » soi-même pleinement animé.
Afterlife: Recompense or settlement or the sudden dissipation of interference or the “or” itself fully enlivened.
*I assure you there are probably several grammar errors here. On y va.