“Words are Events”

— Walter J. Ong, S. J.

Gisele Marie Louise Marguerite La Fleche,

better known as Gisele MacKenzie, star of “Your Hit Parade,” died on

Friday, September 5, 2003.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000:

flèche

NOUN: A slender spire, especially one on a church above the intersection of the nave and transepts

ETYMOLOGY: French, arrow, flèche, from Old French, arrow, of Germanic origin.

nave

NOUN: The hub of a wheel

ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, from Old English nafu.

From my entry of Saturday, Sept. 6, 2003:

‘That person who is to be known,
he in whom these parts rest,
like spokes in the nave of a wheel,
you know him,
lest death should hurt you.’

— Prasna Upanishad



La Fleche

Cover illustration for
The Spirit of Zen

The Spirit is Willing…