WORDS TO THE WISE #16

"EFFORTLESS" EDITION


CATHOLICON
noun
a universal remedy or panacea, cure-all, a remedy for all ills; a comprehensive treatise. 


I was drawn to this word today.  Maybe it is my wanting for a happy ending that is effortless.  Or maybe the desire for an easy way out of any troubles.  Who knows.  But I think when something jumps out at you take the time to welcome it, entertain it and figure out if you were meant to send it back out into the world or have it stay in your metaphorical guest room for a while.  Perhaps it was destined to live with you, in you, forever.

WORDS TO THE WISE #15

"'BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE" EDITION


FILIPENDULOUS
adjective
suspended by or strung upon a single thread

ZUGZWANG
noun
a position in which any decision or move will result in problems; a situation where somebody is forced to act, but would prefer to remain passive; in chess occurs when one player is put at a disadvantage because he/she has to make a move

MULLIGRUBS
noun
a state of depression or low spirits; sullenness, sulky behavior

LALOCHEZIA
noun
the use of foul or abusive language to relieve stress or ease pain

ENANTIODROMIA
noun
the changing of something to it's opposite; the Jungian principle whereby the superabundance of one force inevitably produces its opposite, as with physical equilibrium

Hopefully, the next chapter of "Words to the Wise" will see it's enantiodromia.