notes from Oxford, England-the weight of words! Amy and I hanging in Oxford for a few days en route to Spain. Amy is sick and so we stopped for a bit-just had to be in the intellectual capital of the world where she bought me a book about words-I’ve always been interested in the tone associations of words-like what color they evoke-this book, in tracing etymology, lets me play with more thoroughly the prophetic dimensions of language-just eccentric fun here together! Blessings—white bread is goyish; rye of course, is Jewish…
Looking for Lydia this year!
Finding the Lydias in your life this year… Recall that Lydia was the first woman in Europe to turn towards the message of St Paul.