There is a word I use a fair bit and I saw it in a sentence.  So I thought I would look it up.  The word is “reckon”
It is not something that is used a lot these days but it is still used occasionally.  I reckon very occasionally.  Vocabulary.com says “If reckon sounds odd, that’s because it's mostly gone out of style.”  It goes on to say that in the US it is mostly used by rural types.
Vocabulary.com gives six definitions of Reckon. 1. Expect, believe or suppose 2. Deem to be (as in consider) 3. Judge to be probable 4. Have confidence in 5. Take account of 6. Make a mathematical calculation or computation.  Some of the definitions to me are interchangeable.  For example judge to be probable, have faith or confidence in and make a mathematical calculation all have the synonym “calculate”.
That is the sense I tend to use it in a sentence.  What I am saying when I use the word “reckon” is I have done at least a rough calculation and sometimes a precise one and determined something is in a particular way.  I am confident that if another investigates the matter there is a good chance they will come to a similar conclusion.
I do like the word “reckon.”  To me it does not have a sense of dogmatism.  It says I have found it to be this way.  It seems to very much say this is the way I have found it but if another wants to investigate and perhaps comes to a different conclusion that is for them.
I am very much against telling another how to live.  I hold to things for sure but as a song I love says, “Every man has his belief, his own point of view, on everything from big to small.  Some of them we must defend with everything we’ve got.  Some of them don’t matter much at all.
I will stand for what I hold to and explain why if asked, but I reckon some things don’t matter much at all.  I may agree or disagree with something someone holds to.  That can vary.  What never varies though is my care for the person.

Yesterday was a quiet day.  That does not mean nothing happened.  It did.  In fact it seems more significant than many days.  If I were to sum it up, I would use two words.  “Realistic self-assessment.”
The morning was spent doing things I am used to.  Merril and I setup our church so it is ready for the service.  That means setting up a kids area and ensuring the seating arrangement is ok for the service that comes later.  We also check out the whole joint and do whatever needs to be done to ensure we are ready to go.
The service was great as per usual.  There was a different preacher and someone giving communion.  I really enjoyed both.  I enjoyed the whole time.  We had a number of people there who had not been before.
After that we bought fish for lunch and went home and had a rest.  I had intended to look again at stuff for a meeting I had for a board meeting that afternoon.  But I was pretty cactus for whatever reason and slept till it was time to go.
It was at the meeting I had the sense of “realistic self-assessment.”  It was just in a sense of doing things differently than I might have once.  I was asked to take the minutes.  I was ok doing that but soon realized that the way I did it when I had the job for the year was the right way.  Back then I recorded the meeting so I could glean notes before I deleted the recording.
My writing has always been terrible but I realize it has gotten even worse since the stroke.  Before it I asked for the autograph of someone who said I had nice writing as no one has ever said that before.  At one point yesterday I was asked what I had written and said I was trying to work out my writing.  I notice most bad writers at least understand what they have written.  Not me though.  Often Merril will ask me “what does this say?” and I look at it a long time before knowing what I said.   I know I was too verbose in what I wrote before from recordings, but had gotten briefer.
Yesterday I did not have a recording to fall back on.  But a little thing I have been working on is the thought that “there is good in things, if I look long and hard enough.”  Yesterday’s goodness was the realization of the need to do it the right way for me.
Aldi may be “good, different” and I feel a portion of yesterday’s activity was for me the same.

​It is with some trepidation I face “Dictionary Day” again. I never have any idea what the word will be. Anyway, here goes.

Unreal. The word my finger fell on in the Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary was “purification.” I always follow through on the word. Well there was once I did not. I do not remember what the word was. I can’t even remember what the word was. I wrote about it but did not post it.

The definition of this word is “ritual cleansing.” When I look it up in Oxford Languages I see it says, “the removal of contaminates from something.” I can actually get a picture of something in my head with that one.

Getting rid of contaminates if often really important. I think of when water gets into petrol. It makes the running of the engine a not happening thing. Or I think of something as simple as a spray having a bit of sand or the like in it. It stops the flow of what is being applied and renders the spray useless until I deal with the contaminate.

I think this is an AI definition but it says “purification refers to the process of removing undesirable elements, contaminates or impurities from a substance or environment.” That definition I think takes it a bit further in that it talks of contaminates in any substance or environment. It reminds me of them getting rid of asbestos in mulch recently. Or again asbestos in building material. And what I see in third world countries is water that needs to be purified as if it is not it contains all sorts of microorganisms that kill.

So often something is undesirable because of its effect. What I was describing earlier showed something to be undesirable as it was an inconvenience. Other stuff is undesirable because it can kill.

I know there is something in my, and human, nature that needs to be purged. I just need to look at the effects to see that is the case. From what I see it is a universal need. Fortunately, it is happening and I like what I see, when I see it