[War can be "popular" but never the collective choice of a population.]
thought this was some kind of quaint samba but learned it's morna with lyrics in Cape Verdean Creole.
[Drug dealers and their clients have to constantly invent new language as if they were poets when referring to substances, because known euphemisms or cliches can mean jail.]
[Latin speakers naming those with whom they break bread "com-panis" ("with bread") led to our word "companion".]
[People are always changing as you get to know them—partly due to your presence: they are never still.]
[Neurons change their connection structure each time they fire. Functional brains change. Experience changes you or it didn't happen. Relating is risky because you can't get to know someone without changing them or somewhat becoming them.]
[We can't actually touch anything: our perception of contact is really body atoms and table atoms exerting electromagnetic force on each other—dynamic exchange rather than static contact.]