Falconers have a word for hawks in the mood to slay: they call the bird in yarak. The books say it comes from the Persian yaraki, meaning power, strength and boldness.

pg. 178, H is for HAWK by Helen Macdonald

John Dewey wrote that “we don’t learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.”

This month I’ve written about the words: August, (the silent) B, context, delay, elephant, fallible, grit, Habakkuk 2:2, idioms, Juniper trees, ka, lichen, mono, nausea, orgasm, Ponderosa pine, quixotic, relax, sisters, typewriter, understatement, verb, white, xenophobia, yearn, and zigzag.

Tomorrow […]

Look up the popularity of the word xenophobia over the last 10 years.

Our kitchen is white. Our kitchen is designer white, silent white, and ________ white.

If you do the VERB, you become the NOUN. If you sit around thinking about being the NOUN, but don’t do the VERB, well, you are

I love my wife.