Aglet

[galsal]

There's a handful of words that I run across every few years or so.  Each time I see them, I have to look them up.  In between encounters, all I ever remember is "there's a word for that," but I never remember  what the frickin' word is.

So.  Aglet.  It's one of those words.  I ran across it again on Facebook this morning, where someone posted a

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[galtex]

This bear of little brain somehow learned the meaning of "aglet" and "grommet" simultaneously many years ago but gets the two mixed up sometimes. However, after reading some of your rather romantic metaphors for aglet, I began to wonder if that word had other meanings I didn't know about, so I had to go look it up, just in case there was more about the word than I knew. :D

I'm sorry about your kitty. I hope there is some kind of aglet for the disease and she will somehow come out the other side of the grommet okay.

[galsal]

Aglet starts with "A", which is shaped like a cap. They keep their world from fraying. Grommet starts with a "g", which looks like a hole with a lace coming through it. They are the rites of passage that aglets protect their world from fraying against. Having said that, in six months time I'll have to look up aglet again. Grommet I think I've got.

Daisy will be good until she isn't. What I owe her isn't a cure. None of us get that anyhow, ultimately. What I owe her is good times as she defines them for as long as they are possible. I owe her an end to suffering, when suffering promises to become the new norm. And I owe her grief and memory when the time is appropriate. I can't cure her. No one can. But I can give her everything she needs.