Category: Notebook

Semaison: The natural dispersion of a plant’s seeds. —⁠Littré   1958   January Columns of snow are blown across fields, roads, and hills, truncated or twisted by the wind, frail, fearful stars, restless...

Jesus is good, but Damballah is powerful. —⁠Haitian proverb. Damballah, the great snake god, is chief of the Voodoo pantheon.   Unable to remedy an epidemic of murders and kidnappings, in addition to the familiar...