2007 Word of the Year

So, locavore.  The hip new word of the year from Oxford University Press.  It stands there next to upcycle, hoping to encourage our general consumption of that which is sitting right next to us.  It says grow your own tomatoes, use the wire hangers you long to throw away as stands to rope your vines around.     

These are good things, aka Martha.  And remind me that blogs, particularly mine, require local lore.  I hope only to regale you with stories, of people shuffling through my park, of children sick in the night, of Philadelphia scrappy and tough.    

If all goes well, I’ll have provided myself enough insight to begin that carefully put-aside novel, enough story to know that story itself colors our world.  It is from story that new words become.  Locavore is defined more as an initiative, a story-in-process than a constant noun.  And here on the hip of South Philly, I and my tough Italian Market hub are just that, a story-in-progress  (which I will sometimes refer to as grace, and other times as detritus.)   

Hang on for the fairy tale ending.