There was a ‘wake’ recently for a marvelous and brilliant artist who has been an influence on me since my teens. Norval Morrisseau died, passed over into the spirit world, a world which, it seems, he already dwelled in, bringing its astonishing, shocking and vivid messages to us in the world of the living. I […]
Lexicon: while, wily – hence; ‘wily’ related to one who can wait ‘a while’. Being ‘able to wait’ is, perhaps, the first lesson in strategy. As Rilke put it, “Patience is everything.”
An interesting list of words that captured my imagination, in some cases, for a very long time. Probably worth dropping them in the search box of the Sheddings engine…
Disligion ‘dis’ – Roman word for gates to Hades ‘ligion’ – related to ‘ligament’, and originally referring to the ‘yoke’ that holds cattle together to pull a cart.