Word Audio

Word Audio

Paid subscribers: stop by on Mondays to hear Tony discuss the word of the week, with etymologies, ad libs .. and pizzazz.

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“It hit me right out of the BLUE!” we exclaim, when something strikes us like a thunderbolt, or an inspiration from heaven, utterly unexpected.

Oct 2 •

St. Andrew went to the Greek lands to preach, as far north as Scythia, notorious for being just on the boundary between the civilized and the savage.

Sep 25 •

If we don’t have a sense of the right and just in our ordinary dealings with one another, we can expect that our surroundings will reflect it.

Sep 18 •

We sometimes use the word Nature to mean the natural world about us. But we also commonly use it to mean "the way things are."

Sep 11 •

The life of man is essentially a PILGRIMAGE, as Saint Augustine said long ago, because we have no settled home here on earth.

Sep 4 •

The star-gazer Hevelius called the alternately bright and dim star in the sky Mira, Wonderful. Stars weren’t supposed to change that way!

Aug 28 •

Where does this wheel come from? To answer that, I have to set a scene and tell a story.

Aug 21

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