Prosaic is a favourite word in lectures of Rowan
Williams. It can mean ordinary, common, daily, not quite as interesting as
quite interesting, the norm. It’s antonym, presumably, is poetic. Carol and I
laugh over dinner at these words: “The washing-up proved prosaic.” Two other
favourites are alignment and attunement, both words indicators of relationship,
harmony, shared experience, being in the zone. They’re anti-dogmatic, open to
variation. Someone is alive, their mind at work, who is attuned. They are
learning, have “something understood”, who are aligned. Inside, over wine, we
go on about these words as outside, April cold descends.
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