Eranos
Came across this Greek word: eranos
The word derives from the Ancient Greek word ἔρανος meaning “a banquet to which the guests bring contributions of food, a no-host dinner.”
It’s basically another way of saying potluck. :-)
Very Nice
My partner doesn’t like the word nice. I agree that it’s often used when we don’t want to say that something is average, okay, a passing grade but nothing special. I looked up the origin of nice and… no wonder! It’s even worse than average.
First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English: “foolish, stupid,” from Old French: “silly, simple,” from Latin nescius “ignorant, incapable”
That’s so nice!
Snoopy in Daytona
Arrived at the motel around midnight. What a dump. Spring break and biker place, I imagine. Lots of stuff broken and carelessly mended. Obvious now why there were no interior photos available. Gotta take the ugly with the beautiful. We have stayed in an Ottoman palace and grand hotels and we have stayed in some awful places as, I imagine, every musician has. It’s part of the life. This place was run down but not grimy.
The next morning we met in the parking lot, each of us wanting to get away early, for once. And then Jon coined a new phrase. One of us had slept in their clothes, on top of their bed, and Jon said you did the Snoopy…because Snoopy never sleeps in his doghouse, he always lies on top of the roof. Yes, came the reply at once, I snoopied. It’s part of the vocabulary now. When you snoopy, you lie on top of the covers, preferably in your clothes. You are welcome. Take it and make use of it.
Barbarbarbar
This morning I learned that the first two syllables in the word Barbarian, which derives from the Greek word Bárbaros, represents the sound a foreign language made to Greek ears. Barbar is somewhat similar to our blah blah. Persian, Egyptian, even the dialect of Greeks living at the edges of Greek influence–it all sounded barbaric to the Greeks. And to Athenians all other Greeks were probably barbarians.
So, one side claimed everyone else was a Barbarian, and the other side replied that it all sounded Greek to them.
Empty
from this post on Spoon & Tamago.
After Math
Something I learned today:
Math means mowing, or the cut grass produced by mowing. The stubble that remains is the aftermath.
From the book “Regenesis” by George Monbiot
