peregrination - noun - a long, meandering journey
Last night while immersed in a literary peregrination reading the latest edition of The New Yorker, I came across a book review of Hermione Lee's Tom Stoppard: A Life, using peregrination in a reference to the playwright's childhood. Although I was already familiar with the term, I had not seen it used in a long time. Even at that late hour, what immediately came into my mind was the peregrine falcon, whose name means wanderer. The bird just happens to have one of the longest migrations, which could be a good fact to remember if you are stuck in a pinch, can't recall the definition of the word, and have to depend on association. You never know. You could become a contestant on "Jeopardy" someday and might come up against "noun meaning a long, meandering journey, like that of a specific falcon." "What is peregrination?" "You got it!" That answer could win you the big bucks.
All satirical speculation aside, life is a peregrination. We are all on long, meandering journeys that intersect at junctures. Often there are detours that force us to become waylaid in one state of mind or another. Yet along the path, we can choose to accomplish great deeds or not; we can choose. That in itself is something to be contemplated.
Enjoy this second day in March.
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