There are three words that I've been thinking about a lot lately. One of them stands on its own, and the others form a pair.

Out in the front garden, after hearing the word 'pasado,' I started tripping up over what 'happens' even means. What is a happening? When does something happen? It became very hard for me to figure out. This isn't the first time the door has been busted open this way, not the first time that I've been struck by the combination of being unclear on something that felt clear + realizing just how long (my whole life) I've been going with this base block being unstable.

It astonishes/amazes me when these gaps reveal themselves, or when an assumption is exposed.

"To happen" really is to pass by. To happen is the act of becoming past--the act, the action. It happens is also a possibility: it is the case (such that); it comes to be from time to time.

Something that happens is something that goes by. The word hovers, suspended between past and present. Even future! What an interesting and lovely combination of letters...

I don't fully remember the seed of this second thought, but I've been ruminating for some time on the relation between 'reconciliation' and 'concealment.'

You know, forgetting about the prefix, there's something undeniably close between "concile" and "conceal." These made themselves clear to me as cousin sounds, but I'm sitting there, thinking how the hell is reconciliation related to concealment?

Reconciliation is about bringing together--the "re-" simply denotes "again," restorative. To return into union (with friends, god, etc.) and to rid of discrepancies.

Conceal is usually just to keep close or secret. We could throw the "re-" in front if it's happening again, too. Where is the line between these two things? It's generally my assumption that expressions so close phonetically have to share an identifiable ancestor.

There's a PIE root *kel- that apparently denotes covering and saving. This was a bit of a mind-blowing read. When we see how covering or concealing something relates to keeping it close to yourself, and how that relates to saving through the happenings of preservation and protection, and how that then ties back to the reclamatory nature of reconciliation, it all makes sense.

So, reconciliation and concealment are linked phonetically through the phenomenon of saving, in its different forms.

Saving and happening, returning and reclaiming, opening the lid and closing it again. Sunday sunday sunday. I need a massage and some time on the beach :\