Pushed or Pulled, Never Completely Stilled
The confounding cleaving of daily life
The word of the day is cleave.
This lovely word, with roots in old High German and old Norse, has been in use since before the 12th century. It is that rare and wonderful thing, a contranym, meaning it has two legitimate and opposite meanings.
To cleave is to “adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly,” in other…
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