The "root"...

By Vichara

So much time and energy is focused on the symptoms and the side effects but there is a failure to look at the “root” of the situations. Is there an inability to understand the importance?, an emotional disconnect?, a physical challenge?, a reluctance that would expose the inefficiencies of particular systems? We all dance around the causes in an effort not to be drawn into the turmoil but it is in the middle of this turmoil where the strong impetus will lay to initiate the change needed. If we do not address the “root(s)” of situations it will ultimately create more challenges that will compound on existing ones and like a flock of sheep, run away on you. Round up these sheep and shear them of these situational causes and effects and get to the root.

embonpoint • \ahng-bohng-PWANG (the "ng" is never pronounced, but the vowels are nasalized)\ • noun
: plumpness of person : stoutness
Example Sentence:
The judge was a man of stately embonpoint who walked with a heavy step as he entered the courtroom.
Did you know?
"Embonpoint" is most often used to describe people of heavy, but not unattractive, girth. It derives from "en bon point," a phrase from Middle French that means "in good condition." The word was first used as a noun in English in the 17th century. It has subsequently appeared in works by Charlotte Brontë ("a form decidedly inclined to embonpoint" -- Shirley), James Fenimore Cooper ("an embonpoint that was just sufficient to distinguish her from most of her companions" -- Home as Found), and George Eliot ("as erect in her comely embonpoint as a statue of Ceres" -- Adam Bede), among others.