Spell: Part 2
Since the first part of this spell was about remembrance as a tool for creating boundaries, the spell's word is
remember
*The picture is of Mnemosyne, the ancient world's personification of memory, as portrayed by Rosetti.
This looks like an easy one, doesn't it?
- Re = "back"/"again"
- Member = "a part of an organized whole; literally a limb"
And with dis = "apart" and dismember as an apparent opposite, meaning "to break down into constituent parts," we can tell a fine story of how "remember" is a process of putting things back together, taking the separated parts and putting them back together, how all parts of a memory are essential constituents.
It's a great story, and I think it can be a valid story, but it's not the actual etymology of "remember."
Written by Ela Harrison
on Thursday, 05 March 2015.
Posted in Blogging, All About Words, Mindfulness
do more of what you love
Moving out of gratitude... Right before Thanksgiving I completed a 100-day practice of discipline, about which I'll say more soon. Most crucially, it was a vehicle for me to really privilege my sleep and to establish a sine-qua-non morning routine.
I'm preparing to start another on the Solstice, so I'm reflecting on the experience in order to decide what to undertake for those 100 days. One hundred days to build something meaningful! Grand, right? Something meaningful. Exploration of life purpose. Something I've been neglecting and would like to do more of is writing book reviews.
Here's one for this week, and maybe a regular stream of them starting on the Solstice. Let's see how it goes.
Written by Ela Harrison
on Friday, 05 December 2014.
Posted in Ela Recommends, Literary Citizenship