Finding some answers...

By Vichara

Where do we find the answers we need when we have been consistently manipulated and berated from multiple sources and find it difficult to trust the footing we are on? Who can you trust when it may seem like the many have ulterior motives or are biased by less than credible sources. Where to search, where to find, where to seek safe refuge? I don’t have an answer that I can give; I only raise this as a catalyst to further the search for the “truth”. You may have the answer or part of the answer but raising these questions and others like them I am only trying to ignite that, which is in all of us with the “search”. But many our altruistic searches can get clouded by many unnecessary diversions. Give yourselves the time, the space and the encouragement to poke at the darkness until it bleeds daylight and know that there are others out there that are “thinking” and you are not alone.

pink • \PINK\ • verb
1 a : to perforate in an ornamental pattern * b : to cut a saw-toothed edge on
2 a : pierce, stab b : to wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule

Example Sentence:
"The sleek curtain requires no sewing; we pinked the edges to add a bit of detail." (Jennie Voorhees, Martha Stewart Living, April 2002)

Did you know?
Our unabridged dictionary, Webster's Third New International, includes 13 distinct entries for "pink," whereas our abridged volume, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate, satisfies itself with the five most common. (Words get distinct entries in our dictionaries when they have different etymologies or different parts of speech.) Today's "pink," the only verb of the five, is from a Middle English word meaning "to thrust." Of the remaining four, the only "pink" older than the verb (which dates to 1503) is a 15th century noun referring to a kind of ship. The next-oldest noun has since 1573 referred to a genus of herbs. The noun referring to the color pink and its related adjective date to 1678 and 1720, respectively. Evidence suggests that a new verb "pink" -- a synonym of the verb "pink-slip" -- is also emerging.