Note: A Weasel is of the genus Mustela (which includes stoats, polecats, mink, ferrets, otters, wolverines, martins etc.) one of their habits is to suck the contents of an egg leaving the shell behind. In 1900 the term Weasel Words was coined to reflect words that suck the meaning out of other words, e.g. organised chaos, some people say, experts recommend, are all weasel words.
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“How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.” Jane Hirshfield
Other Voices
The house was not just any house, it was of me and I of it, intimacy was every sunken board, chip and crack of age, and today for the umpteenth time the back door squeaked in greeting at days end, perhaps that my mind was weary, and the torture too hard to bear, that I took the cannister and oiled that squeak to a silence bare, peace reigned in all but heart, I missed that voice, disturber of life, provocative spirit, it made me think.
“There are many rhymes about magpies, but none of them is very reliable because they are not the ones that the magpies know themselves.” Terry Pratchett