Gene gave me a book to read after Jill's tango lesson 2 in Tunkhannock. "Body of Work -Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab". Did I need to spend this week inside a cadaver named Eve with all the detailed description of nerves, muscles, bones- their origins and insertions -down to tiny details?
Tango, as it always does, creeps its way into everything I read, and arrives on page 96 where I stumble on anastomosis, a word I haven't seen since 10th grade advanced biology( a shark and cat- not a human).
The word means the intersection of 2 parts and their subsequent shared pathways. Comes from the Greek word meaning to intercommunicate.
: the union of parts or branches (as of streams, blood vessels, or leaf veins) so as to intercommunicate or interconnect.
This beautiful word gives our tango a joining. I think of the communication in tango that almost joins us for 3 minutes of silence. Maybe I just like the word.
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