Monthly Archives: July 2020

The Beginning is the End . . . 1. The Cash Register Synchronicities Posted on February 26, 2011 FORWARD by Dr. John Shepherd The following, as you probably know by now, is the blog space of Charlie Fitzgerald Grant, one of the 7,144 … Continue reading →

Zachariah masc. proper name, Late Latin Zacharias, from Greek Zakharias, from Hebrew Zekharyahu, literally “the Lord has remembered,” from zakhar “he remembered.” lang syne “long ago,” c. 1500, Scottish dialect variant of long since; popularized in Burns’ song, 1788. Century Dictionary has langsyner “person who lived long ago.” terrorize … Continue reading →

“If you can make people feel isolated, you can make ’em shut up!” -Terence McKenna ultraviolet (adj.) “beyond the violet end of the visible spectrum,” 1840, from ultra- “beyond” + violet. Ultra-red (1870) was a former name for what now is called infra-red. Entries related to Ultraviolet … Continue reading →

“VALIS (acronym of Vast Active Living Intelligence System from an American film): A perturbation in the reality field in which a spontaneous self-monitoring negentropic vortex is formed, tending progressively to subsume and incorporate its environment into arrangements of information. Characterized … Continue reading →

quarantine (n.) 1660s, “period a ship suspected of carrying disease is kept in isolation,” from Italian quaranta giorni, literally “space of forty days,” from quaranta “forty,” from Latin quadraginta“forty,” which is related to quattuor “four” (from PIE root *kwetwer- “four”). So called from the Venetian policy (first enforced … Continue reading →

“music (n.) mid 13 c., musike, ‘a pleasing succession of sounds or combination of sounds; the science of combining sounds in rhythmic, melodic and (later) harmonic order,’ from Old French musique, (12 c.) and directly from Latin musica, ‘the art … Continue reading →

20-19 19-20 Co-V-ID (20)19 pan-dem-ic 19(20) S-pan-ish (in) FLU (en/ce/za) 100 Years = 1 Cen-TauR-e = 1 Hun-D-Red (Rum) – 10×10 – Decade – Decayed – De-Side/ C-id-e – Say 10 – Sa-TuR-n – Sa-TauR-8-ion – El-ec-tri-c – Ma-tri-x – … Continue reading →

“dale (n.) level or gently sloping ground between low hills with a stream flowing through it, Old English dael ‘valley, gorge,’ from Proto-Germanic *dalaz ‘valley’ (source also of Old Saxon, Dutch, Gothic dal, Old Norse dalr, Old High German tal, … Continue reading →