"END-OF-THE-WEEK-RUMINATIONS"

       I like these oases at the end of the week.  Nothing really new added.  Just something that may bear on, perhaps amplify, give another bit of texture to one of the week's topics.  A sense of pause and reflection.  Letting there be something of a sabbath from language's never-ending push for attention and understanding and action.

       Of course, "rumination" itself comes from what the cow does with its cud, "chewing the cud," which perhaps comes from a similar Sanskrit word meaning exactly the same thing.  What a good comparison:  to let a topic, a word, go round and around inside one before peacefully, satisfyingly, digesting it.