‘Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.’ ~ Robert Frost The Death of a Hired Man Etomology of home For word origins, I go to Etymonline. We find that from Middle English, “home” was hom, and from Old English, it was ham. Back then, the […]
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Roads are a record of those who have gone before. ~ Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking This is probably true, but in more ways than one. That is, others have traveled roads before us, and perhaps have left their marks. But there’s also the origin of names that don’t end in road. That
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Man is the most intelligent of the animals, and the most silly. ~Diogenes Can’t argue with that, but I’m also not inclined to throw my species under the bus–or to tout its intelligence unnecessarily. We all know what we’re capable of, whatever level that is. Today I’m thinking about wilder creatures that have amazing capabilities.
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“There are no perfect symmetries, there is no pure randomness, we are in the gray region between truth and chaos. Nothing novel or interesting happens unless it is on the border between order and chaos. ~ R.A. Delmonico I beg to differ. The definition of “novel or interesting” is as subjective as whether a cornbread
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