Created
Coined here with its parent word, or words named where they belong.
Unearthed
An old word recovered from disuse and given a new lease of life.
Alive
Still spoken somewhere in the world – you may not have met it and Richard simply loves it.
The Susurrium
A Lexicon of contemplative words
n. a gathering place where new and old words weave,
dance and cavort together on the fringes of silence.
IN RICHARD'S WORDS
A word before the words
The English language is a magnificent hoarder. It has wonderful words for the precise hue of a horse’s coat and for the sound a particular Yorkshire beck makes over stone, and yet it has very little that describes the various states a contemplative person moves through on a daily basis. There is no word for the taste that one silence makes grating against another, or for the beauty that arrives while you are busy making something else, or for the way a bell keeps opening long after it has been struck.
Richard Rudd
‘The best of them are not definitions at all but portals into the contemplative state, and the only way to find out where a portal leads is to walk through it.’
Richard Rudd
HOW A WORD COMES TO BE
Created, unearthed, alive
Each word in this collection belongs to one of three kinds.
The gathering
The Words
STILL GATHERING
// Silentior // Fairfall //Gladno //Omniquesence
Every word is a portal. Walk through it. –
or send one to someone.
or send one to someone.
