I quite often cogitate (being a gardener and a writer makes it compulsory) but have only just realised that excogitation is also a thing. That means to think out or contrive, whereas cogitate is to ponder or even meditate.By my calculations that means I can now spend twice as long looking at the pretty flowers and claiming I'm working by plotting on my plot.
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Whatever excuse works, right?
nothing even quarter-wise witty comes to mind...
I need to look at flowers and plot about my plot more often. :D
I wonder if those pretty flowers excogitate about where they are going next.
Being an inveterate spooneriser and transposer of letters, I always hear "cogitate" as a prompt for an old kids' rhyme from way back:
Two. four, six, eight,
Mary at the cottage gate,
eating cherries off a plate,
Two four six eight.
Hehehe! I love to stare out the window and work too. :)
Absolutely, Alex.
That's not like you, Mac.
We all do, Chrys.
They might, Oscar. It's very hard to guess what they might be thinking.
Oh dear - hope I haven't left you with an ear worm, Robert.
It's an important part of the process, Christine.
:)
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