Naming things
Did you know that the week between Christmas and New Year’s has all kinds of names?
Twixtmas, Chrimbo Limbo, Dead Week, The Fallow and Witching Week are some of them.
Weird how when you discover something has a name, it solidifies. Some mystery dissolves.
Naming is assignation: a thing is this, so it is no longer that, or that, or a combination of that this and those thats.
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Little visitor
Paikea came to visit on Christmas Eve in the morning. Her hair was slicked into a tiny ponytail because her parents hadn’t managed to wash all the Vaseline out she’d studiously rubbed into it earlier.
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