The migration...

By Vichara


The migration is happening once again. Our frequent flyer feathered friends are making their way again north to greet the unfolding spring that turns to summer. When they fulfill that part of the arc of the circle of life they will once again return. The reason they leave – survival. They fly thousands of miles so they can live. There was a time that a faction of us humanoids followed the same trends; we moved to survive. Although today in our modern temperature controlled world there is really not the need to migrate as our ancestors once did. We now participate in another form of migration for survival, this one internally. Our minds take the baggage of “what if”, “could be”, “will be” and “hope so” and hoist them on our backs to traverse the terrain of possibilities and outcome. We take these thoughts and wishes up and down the migratory route of reason until they are fulfilled or discarded. Yes as tough as it may seem we all need to jettison some of our thoughts and wishes – for our own survival.

logomachy • \loh-GAH-muh-kee\ • noun
1 : a dispute over or about words
2 : a controversy marked by verbiage
Example Sentence:
The surprising election results have opened the floodgates of logomachy in the political media outlets.
Did you know?
It doesn't take much to start people arguing about words, but there's no quarrel about the origin of "logomachy." It comes from the Greek roots "logos," meaning "word" or "speech," and "machesthai," meaning "to fight," and it entered English in the mid-1500s. If you're a word enthusiast, you probably know that "logos" is the root of many English words ("monologue," "neologism," "logic," and most words ending in "-logy," for example), but what about other derivatives of "machesthai"? Actually, this is a tough one even for word whizzes. Only a few very rare English words come from "machesthai." Here are two of them: "heresimach" ("an active opponent of heresy and heretics") and "naumachia" ("an ancient Roman spectacle representing a naval battle").

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