Compassionate Threads
Between us exists a thread that connects everyone. On a macro level it may not appear that big but on a micro level it is hunormous (I know a made up word for bloody big!). Within these very strong fibrous strands that connects us all is all of the hopes, dreams, pain, inspirations, anxiety, the collective range of the human that has been shared and will continue to be shared. For those that become cognizant of these fibers will recognize when one of the foundation strands of love and compassion is weak in a fellow being and will help pull it taught for them and in turn they to you.
etiolate • \EE-tee-uh-layt\ • verb
*1 : to bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight
2 a : to make pale b : to deprive of natural vigor : make feeble
Example Sentence:
The bean plants that Grace grew for her lab project became weak and etiolated when they were kept in a dark closet for a week.
Did you know?
When we first started using "etiolate" in the late 1700s (borrowed from the French verb "étioler"), it was in reference to purposely depriving growing celery of light. The word traces back to an Old French word for "straw" and is related to the Latin word for "straw" or "stalk," which is "stipula." Nowadays the term for growing veggies as pale as straw is now more likely to be "blanch," which can mean "to bleach (the leaves or stalks of plants) by earthing, boarding, or wrapping," among other things. "Etiolate" is more apt to refer to depriving plants in general of light; when "etiolated," they are sickly, pale, and spindly. The figurative sense of "etiolate" ("to make pallid or feeble") first appeared in the 1800s as a natural outgrowth of the original sense
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