…could use some help. In On Learning to Heal, Ed Cohen writes, “Care is an interesting word. It comes from the Middle High German root caren, which means both trouble, grief, or sorrow, and the succoring thereof.” I also heard this rooted definition of the term recently at a conference. To care, on one hand, means to trouble over, to grieve, to sorrow about. On the other, it means to provide help, relief, aid, or assistance. Caren carries within it an “antithetical meaning” or a “kind of folding together of contraries… not governed by the laws of logic.” We can make sense of … Continue reading Hazy, The Toilet’s True Arbiter of Taste…