While there are quite a few definitions for the word 'funk' between traditional dictionaries and urban Dictionary, there tends to overall be three meanings to the word. ( I just tries to see the entry for funk on OED, but was unable to find a free way to the site. Sad day.) Funk is a type of music, can describe the most lovely of stenches, and also is classified as a mood. All the definitions of funk in regard to it being a mood, describe it as a depressed mood. My question to the collection of dictionaries on the Internet is why funk cannot represent a mood that is odd, irregular, and/or different from the norm?
I have had some funky days lately. No, they haven't smelled badly unless you consider the nights I work at the restaurant and these past days haven't been filled with interesting music or depression. Sunday, though filled with challenging thoughts, was a day of good funk. It felt like this mood had settled over me, over the world, my world, but instead of depression settling over everything there was this calm and quiet peace. Not a day blinded by the sun's heavy heat or violently beaten by a storm's fury, but a full day of dawn's haze that is both sunny and cloudy, warm after the chill of night and cold before the afternoon heat. This funk has not yet left since that morning.
Along with the funk has come a quietness. I am not sure if the quietness brought the funk or if the funk brought the quietness, but it is here nonetheless. I have had people to talk to, several long and lovely conversations, people to work with, voices to read in thoughtful books, though this quiet calm persists. It is not bad or completely good, just different, just funky.
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