August 2018

Our word today is personality. So, I did one of those online personality tests. Here’s the site, if you’d like to try –  https://www.16personalities.com/ They really are very good at defining your inner self from just a few questions. I don’t usually take these tests seriously, however, I was a little stunned, when the description of my personality […]

Our word for today is turbulent – agitated. There are a lot of synonyms for turbulent, from something as mild as, disorder to something as frightening as violent. I remember the comments when both Trump and Ford were elected. People said that they wanted to, “shake things up a bit.” They had become complacent with

Our word for today is guilt – the fact or state of having committed an offence. On one hand, we could feel guilt because of a terrible crime, we’ve committed. On the other hand, we could feel guilt, simply by being who we are. I have said before that I feel guilty because of an

Our word today is suicide….. I had posted earlier, that a friend had recently committed suicide. It’s a tragic act, a devastation for family and friends. The seminal work on suicide is still a book published in 1897 – Emile Durkheim’s, Suicide. Many years ago, in my third year of university, I wrote a paper

Our word today is pacify, to soothe. Although, pacify has a number of synonyms, soothe is the one I like the best. I immediately thought of the phrase, “to soothe the troubled mind.” In fact, I keyed this phrase into Google and came up with quite a list of suggestions to ease the troubled mind.

Our word for today is “essence.” In very basic terms, it is what something really is. On one level, essence can be as simple as an essential oil – lavender is one I have used. One the other hand, essence can be as complex as the concept of democracy. As much as I say, I’m