Introducing Intellection

I love a Thesaurus.

Back in the dark days before computers, word processing and spellcheck, a thesaurus WAS my spellcheck, possibly one of my best life hacks. If you don’t know how to spell a word, just look up a synonym or antonym of the word you want to use. Boom. There is your word, no trial and error with a giant dictionary. Pocket Roget was my friend all through high school and college.

Pocket Roget’s cyberpunk great-grandbaby, thesaurus.com, come through for me again.

I wanted to rename this blog. Modern Oracle had Tarotbytes. I gave TaoCraft’s blog the obvious and eponymous title. For the soft relaunch of this blog, I was coming up empty. All I could think of was hackneyed, cliche, softball tripe like “musings” “inkling” “spark” or “thoughts.” Thesaurus to the rescue yet again.

Intellection means an exercise for the intellect, or a process of understanding. Finding this word was an intellection leading to an epiphany. Now I see a complete picture of web presence. TaoCraft is outward facing. That blog is where I hope to inform, inspire and entertain albeit with a renewed sense of fierce authenticity compared to Modern Oracle.

This is inward. This is where I write to understand and, hopefully, bring you along for the ride. Teeming with opinion, sprinkled with holistic health, this is where all the introspection and miscellany will go. Introspection and Miscellany would be a decent title, too, but it is a bit long for the web page layout. I’ll save that one in case I’m ever in a geeky hipster alternative rock band.