vi. Signs and Wonders - Marmalade & Mindfulness
Mindfulness Mid-14c from mind + -ful. From Old English gemynd meaning ‘memory or thought’, of ancient Germanic origin. Tonight it is...
v. Signs and Wonders - Rubbish Day
Rubbish c.1400, from Anglo-French rubouses related to rubble. The verb sense to criticize first attested 1953 in Australian slang. NAWMA*...
iv. Signs and Wonders - Jesus
Jesus Late 12thC Old English use hælend; saviour, from Greek Iesous, from Aramaic proper name Jeshua, Hebrew Yeshua. Four In The...
iii. Signs and Wonders - Ruins
Ruins Late 14c. ‘act of giving way and falling down,’ from Old French ruine, from Latin ruina ‘a collapse, Spanish ruina, Italian rovina....
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©Jeff Guess 2017
‘Words in their best order.’
I was in transcendental mode when this book arrived. I was searching my mind for different meanings to my life, other tasks, other ways...
'Not marble, nor the gilded monuments . . .'
Venere Di Canova South Australia prides itself as embracing the arts early in its history and this statue, translated as Canova's Venus...
ii. Sign and Wonders - Olives
Olives c.1200, ‘olive tree,’ from Old French olive, from Latin olive, from Greek elaia. Picking Olives There are barely two colours:...
'Not marble, nor the gilded monuments . . .'
Matthew Flinders The explanation afterward for everything was the ship inside his skull not the leaky one he sailed in mistaking the new...
