Month: February 2026

• The difference between the almost right word and the right word, is like a lightning bug and the lightning

    It’s rather easy for those of us who share a culture and language (such as English) to forget that the meanings of some of the expressions we use do not follow from their lexical makeup: the idioms. They can play unique havoc in translations: foreign poetry, for example. Metaphors may or may not cross…

  gozzter

  February 18, 2026

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  cultural norms, Haiku, idioms, poetry, translatability, words

• Plucking from the memory a rooted sorrow

  I had no idea what ‘ghosting’ was until after I had ventured (naïvely) onto a social media platform while I was travelling; I thought that some people might enjoy my admittedly unusual essays about  what I was seeing, on the assumption that an alternate view might be revelatory for those who read about faraway places…

  gozzter

  February 11, 2026

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  friends, ghosting, social media posts, texting, writing

• Thinking is the soul talking to itself

  I am conscious. How do I know? Because I have to be conscious to know the answer. Although there may well be an occasional thought stuck to the bottom of the pot, it will float to the surface eventually if I’m patient. And if it is brief and happens only occasionally maybe it wouldn’t disturb me;…

  gozzter

  February 4, 2026

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  consciousness, delayed response, meditation, mind blanks, philosophy, thinking