Famous last words
From Nothing to Everything
The last post, which was on my old website, said I hoped to have this new website up within the year, that was 4 years ago, just before the world changed and I lost the will to promote or to plan anything. Everything cancelled at a moments notice, why bother investing time, energy and love into projects that probably wont happen. They have been fallow years, but also regenerative years. I absolutely loved to dive so deep into studying, found myself perpetually hungry for more, exploring deep into my and a few compatriots psyche. These last few months have given me finally the will to extend out again, first I worked on my mail list, meeting each person there and holding you all individually in my heart, such a joy! I used to dread working on the database in the same way I dreaded doing accounts, but suddenly, it was the right time and I loved it… and so I was able to post a newsletter. But in that moment my website disappeared and I was unable to find out why. Luckily I was in the process of creating the new one, so all the information had already been transferred. That is what I have been working on this last month, again working on websites is not normally a joy for me, but the meditation has been so fruitful in focusing me on what I want to concentrate and focus on next, now I have turned 70 and should be retired! I haven’t changed the words yet, they are as they were some 10 years ago, I left doing that until after the basic website is up and running, if you are reading this then that mission has been accomplished. I will “announce” it being live when I have re-written or re-woven the text as a result of my musings on “what comes next,” in this shifting and changing world we are lucky enough to be part of.
text (n.)
late 14c., "wording of anything written," from Old French texte, Old North French tixte "text, book; Gospels" (12c.), from Medieval Latin textus "the Scriptures, text, treatise," in Late Latin "written account, content, characters used in a document," from Latin textus "style or texture of a work," literally "thing woven," from past participle stem of texere "to weave, to join, fit together, braid, interweave, construct, fabricate, build" (from PIE root *teks- "to weave, to fabricate, to make; make wicker or wattle framework").
An ancient metaphor: thought is a thread, and the raconteur is a spinner of yarns — but the true storyteller, the poet, is a weaver. The scribes made this old and audible abstraction into a new and visible fact. After long practice, their work took on such an even, flexible texture that they called the written page a textus, which means cloth. [Robert Bringhurst, "The Elements of Typographic Style"]
From: the Online Etymology Dictionary