Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow.

I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.