My old blog, the Word of the Day, is defunct, and I’m getting ready to take it down. Before I do, though, I’m going to repost some of the best words here over the next few weeks. Enjoy! Boycott Boycott is an eponym, a word derived from the name of a person. In this case…
Month: September 2010
The Great Bear II: Trapped in the Earth; Bearing a Ring
Early in the spring of 2010, when I was having considerable trouble with both my health and my finances, I tried meditating to get a message about what the root of my problems were. I often have difficulty meditating on these topics, perhaps because I am so “close” to them — I feel like I…
Words of the Day: Blue, Book, Bound
My old blog, the Word of the Day, is defunct, and I’m getting ready to take it down. Before I do, though, I’m going to repost some of the best words here over the next few weeks. Enjoy! Blue From Proto Indo European bhlewas, meaning “light colored”, applicable to anything from yellow to light gray…
The Great Bear I: the Dream, the Trail, and the Second Temple
My spirit guides tend to be very, very polite. They’ll rarely smack me over the head with a message; they’ll usually wait until I ask explicitly for help or direction with something. And sometimes they’re evasive or silent even then — especially if they know I won’t like what they have to say. But if…
Words of the Day: Bewilder, Bizarre, Blog
My old blog, the Word of the Day, is defunct, and I’m getting ready to take it down. Before I do, though, I’m going to repost some of the best words here over the next few weeks. Enjoy! Bewilder Bewilder is a compound word, first attested from around 1680, composed of two archaic elements: Be-…
Words of the Day: Arda, Assassin, Beauty
My old blog, the Word of the Day, is defunct, and I’m getting ready to take it down. Before I do, though, I’m going to repost some of the best words here over the next few weeks. Enjoy! Arda In Tolkien’s cosmology, Arda means the Earth, as well as the sun and the moon and…
