I began playing with words in early childhood and was intrigued by what I was noticing. For instance, I saw that –– OPPOSITE begins with opposites: OP-PO-sites PARALLEL has three…
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“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a…
“All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of humanity and the earth.” Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) There’s a deep underneath language…
O God, help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful it is.’ Macrina Wiederkehr Have you ever wondered about the fact that we cannot see ourselves directly? It takes a clear reflection from an unclouded mirror…
Thoughts for a Divinely Loving Valentine’s Day[1] When I was 20, I read these beautiful words in The Phenomenon of Man by the French paleontologist and Jesuit priest, Teilhard de…
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Oscar Wilde Given the extraordinary era in which we are now…
“The vital principle that guides the development and function of an organism The Soul” [per Google] Years ago, Eye encountered the word entelechy by turning to the word quite…
It’s said that every person has a twin somewhere in the world. But did you know that many a word has a mostly unheard sonic twin –– or homonym ––…
“Noun: a massive amount of widely and rapidly circulating information about a particular crisis or controversial issue, consisting of a confusing combination of fact, falsehood, rumor, and opinion.” 12.8.20 Word-of-the-Day,…
Have you ever wondered why the day commemorating the torturous crucifixion of the Prince of Peace is called ‘Good Friday?’ What, exactly, was good about it? Conversely, the biggest shopping…
“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies…
You may have heard by now of the Japanese term, shinrin-yoku, which translates as forest bathing –– a restorative treatment for depression that is said to elevate our immune response….