Best New Word

Did you ever come across a new thing that stuck in your head until you came across it again from a different direction shortly thereafter and wondered, "Is this new to the world or just to me?"

While reading Michael Polland's Omnivore's Dilemma, I came across the term "biophilia" coined by the father of organic farming, Sir Albert Howard in his An Agricultural Testament when describing what is lost to agribusiness when they see the earth as a place to dump chemicals that grow corn. That very evening Stephen Colbert featured Bjork showcasing her new album "Biophilia."

Sir Albert died in 1945, Michael Polland wrote of him in 2006, Bjork released her album this month. I'm the kind of guy who takes this as a positive sign of humans returning to the garden in symbiosis with Pachamama, Gaia, Mother Earth.

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Best New Word: BIOPHILIA, n, Love of the natural living universe, ahimsa, agapé, the golden rule.