Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
2/18: understanding a name
Chris has been looking at place-names adopted from Native American languages; he asked me if there were any near where I grew up in Pennsylvania. I mentioned some but then wanted to look at a map to see if there were more. And I found "Wopsononock," which everyone calls "Wopsy Mountain" back at home. I'm glad to know its fuller name now, "Wopsononock" being a Delaware word meaning "white land."
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