Me, you, everyone. Why do we forget this? Why do we expect otherwise? Why are we surprised?

I love the story of the blind men who describe an elephant. They each describe a specific part by feeling it. One guy grabs a leg and is convinced it’s a tree, another grabs the tail, and so on with ear and tusk and nose and skin. Someone points out that they are all correct, […]

Rain, train, plane, adolescence, obedience, life. Sometimes “40 years in the desert” is figurative, symbolic, metaphor; sometimes “40 years in the desert” is a realistic timeline, a guide to set your expectations.

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Debt, dumb, doubt. The silent B is still lingering around in English words, a reminder of when we said things differently, when we put emphasis on different syllables. What sounds now are scheduled for extinction? What history will changing spellings erase?

August can be a month, a noun, an eponym, an adjective. August brings to my mind a caesar (Augustus), a theologian (Augustine), a monastic order (Gregor Mendel lived in an Augustinian abbey in Brno), and a favorite poem – “Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout” by Gary Snyder.

It’s both true and not, like so […]

AGOG: A BLOG OF WONDER FROM AUGUST – IDIOSYNCRACY, 312 Words to Celebrate, Updated Every 1.16987179487 Days

ABC #1 AUGUST – ZIGZAG  (#1 – 26)

STU #2 SEPTEMBER – REALITY  (#27 – 52)

OPQ #3 OCTOBER – NEWFOUNDLAND (#53 – 78)

NOP #4 NOVEMBER – MUSES (#79 – 104)

DEF #5 DECEMBER – CARTOGRAPHY (#105 […]