Archive for the 'Words & phrases' Category

My Funny Palindrome

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Perhaps on account of his name, Bob was incredibly fond of palindromes — words, phrases and sentences that were the same backward and forward. I intend to transcribe Bob’s 88 word sample, which he loved to recite and put prominently in his memoir.
Here is a link to a hilarious and clever piece by the [...]

From one of Bob’s notes…

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

Jacob Boehme wrote: “As the many kinds of flowers grow in the earth near each other, and none contends with the other about color, smell, or taste, but they let the earth and the sun, rain and wind, heat and cold, do what they will with them, while they grow each according to its [...]

soror mystica

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

There is that awkward moment introducing one’s life partner, or lover, when one has obviously passed the girlfriend – boyfriend phase and into the mature relationship. What does one say? I’d like you to meet the person on whose nerves I have decided to perch for the rest of our natural lives? [...]

Esemplasy

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

“Coleridge [used the word] “esemplasy” [to mean] the gathering (Logos) of diverse things into unity — the Original Unity, the Plotinian One, the One which is not a number. This cannot be defined by contrast to anything else, but is provisionally termed “Mind” by those who have awakened to it. Blake called it [...]