Levity/Brevity
August 2025
One late night drive home with my brother we had a lovely conversation, the kind of conversation where it felt like we were discussing the important stuff.
Anyways, during the conversation, I kept mixing up the words “brevity” and “levity.”
Reflecting back on that conversation I decided to look up the definition of these two similarly sounding words.
Brevity.
The one definition that stuck out was “Shortness of duration; briefness of time” and then it gave the example “the brevity of human life”
Levity.
The first definition that showed was “Humor, merriment, or a lack of seriousness, especially when inappropriate.”
In the conversation with my brother, I expressed how I was scared that my conversations and interactions with people are too full of levity.
My brother reflected back to me that that understanding about levity is too simplistic. Looking back at the definitions I also stumbled upon this one “The state or quality of being light; buoyancy.”
I suppose I can see where my brother is coming from. Framed in that light (no puns intended), levity is a sort of resiliency perhaps? Within certain sort of contexts, levity is important.
Levity in the brevity of human life.
Levity in brevity.
Levity/brevity
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August was smoky (once again), contemplative, and fun (type 2). Looking back, it was full of:
Indianhead cafe, Five Corners, walking around Saskatoon, Disc golf, Wolseley’s (the town) rope bridge, bumping into old coworkers, playing Codenames, lunch at the Crusty Bun, playing scrabble, cottage morning dip, Prairie Crocus thrift shop, Wolseley farmer’s market, setting up new shelves, picking up friends from the airport, Lord Roberts, L & J’s burgers, eating cheerios in an empty camp kitchen, orange theme meal, swimming in Max Lake, Cauldron chilli, Harvest Meal, portaging and canoing in rain, Djing a wedding, Goldeyes game, playing crib, seeing a house on Burnell, running errands, bumping into an old Don’s photo customer, swimming in Falcon Lake, biking to West Hawk lake, hot dogs.
Enjoy the photos,
Michael, not Mike
