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Just some thoughts about recovery:
Four things you can’t recover
The stone……..after the throw. The word……..after it’s said.
The occasion………after it’s missed. The time……….after it’s
gone.
So let’s be glad we can recover ourselves!
A new word for our vocabulary. If you are in recovery from substance abuse and are anything like me, in my final days of my active disease, my vocabulary had been reduced to four-letter words and many of them weren’t so nice. In recovery, we love to grow and learn. I’ve always had a fascination with words and I’d like to spread this contagion.
At the bottom of some of my posts, I will feature a word of the day so that we can start rebuilding our vocabulary as we rebuild our lives. I’m here to grow and I hope you are too so here we go…
sui generis \soo-eye-JEN-ur-us; soo-ee-\, adjective:
Being the only example of its kind; constituting a class of its own; unique.
This man, in fact, was sui generis, a true original.
– Ruth Lord, Henry F. du Pont and Winterthur
They’re a special case, a category of their own, sui generis.
– Eric Kraft, Leaving Small’s Hotel
William Randolph Hearst did not speak often of his father. He preferred to think of himself as sui generis and self-created, which in many ways he was.
– David Nasaw, The Chief
Sui generis is from Latin, literally meaning “of its own kind”: sui, “of its own” + generis, genitive form of genus, “kind.”
