Milestone

An established point of reference. That’s what I have hit. I began this series, “disseminating (Latin: dissēminātus) seeds” a few months back. What I, upon writing this fiftieth entry to the series, have come to personally and endearingly refer to as “drutling.” A term that, according to John Jamieson’s Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, applies to a “dog or horse that frequently stops in its way, and ejects a small quantity of dung at intervals.”

Its Crap.

That’s right. Crap. Garbage. However, The great thing about garbage is that you never know what is coming next. Its promise is a surprise, sometimes of gold, sometimes of much worse. One can only be sure that the desirable will be mixed up with the repulsive, for this is the character of the midden of one’s mind. Disjecta membra, loose parts, nestle alongside each other, discontinuous but juxtaposed.

What gets placed on the Pile of Crap?

Whatever is unwanted, unusable, and broken. But brokenness is a recurring idea throughout the strains of thought. We encounter it in the division of all forms of communication; in the theory of silence broken forcibly open by letters, symbols, words, speech, laughter, music, video, and all sound; in the theory of degradation of grey matter post-it notes prior to transmutation to something nobler — Wordplay and Wordsmithing.

And when approached from a theological positioning, breaking thru the crap that clutters one’s mind, makes transcendence immanent, for when the sacredly hidden is violently broken open it becomes real. Transperant.

The Sacred and the Profane

Now form a relationship to each other. Exposed again as seeds within juxtaposed and fertile and fetid contraries; domains that reflect each other antisymmetrically.

In the Midden

I find the most unlikely bedfellows and am constantly surprised by the connections between different things, finding analogies that freewheel between cultivated objects rather than any coherent whole that depends on an internal connection of deductive reasoning. In the etymologically disseminating midden explored, I investigate the refuse used to fertilize the family tree of meanings, unearthing connections between words revealed in puns, word play, the word-origins, scattered and sown in lines of code and shared composting from outside sources…

And a renewed, greener, and Relevant Meaning.