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14Dec/12Off

ESSENCE OF YOU

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es·sence (

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ns)

1. The intrinsic or indispensable properties that serve to characterize or identify something.

2. The most important ingredient; the crucial element.

3. The inherent, unchanging nature of a thing or class of things.

a. An extract that has the fundamental properties of a substance in concentrated form.

b. Such an extract in a solution of alcohol.

c. A perfume or scent.

5. One that has or shows an abundance of a quality as if highly concentrated: a neighbor who is the essence of hospitality.

6. Something that exists, especially a spiritual or incorporeal entity.

[Middle English essencia and French essence, both from Latin essentia, from esse, to be, from the presumed present participle *ess Pin It ns, *essent- (on the model of differentia, difference, from differ Pin It ns, different-, present participle of differre, to differ), created to translate Greek ousi Pin It (from ousa, feminine present participle of einai, to be); see es- in Indo-European roots.]

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8Jan/12Off

EMPTY GLASS HALF FULL

Reality is an empty glass half-full of birds and bats who flutter with opinions about the blackness of space, the whiteness of stars, the beauty of feathers and the ugliness of nothing.

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Life, Universes and Other Stuff

My Universe -- without commercials, lies, propaganda, political spin, religious rhetoric, stupidity, superstition and other people's opinions. What could be more perfect?