Letter from the Editor - FEBRUARY 2008

Welcome to Another Day in Paradise.

Panache: flamboyant confidence of style or manner; a tuft or plume of feathers, especially as a headdress or on a helmet.

Parade: a public procession; a boastful or ostentatious display.

Paradise: heaven as the ultimate abode of the just; an ideal or idyllic place or state; the elusive goal of a vague and wandering journey that often leads people to Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Mexico; A little magazine you just might find there; a cliche for all things great and glorious you just might be tempted to overuse; that nostalgic place you start dreaming of returning to, even as you are leaving.

Paradox: a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that may in fact be true.

Paragon: a person or thing regarded as a model of excellence or of a particular quality; a perfect diamond of 100 carats or more.

Paramount: more important than anything else, supreme; having supreme power.

Parody: an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect; a travesty.

Particular: especially great or intense: Exercise particular care when pouring champagne on sailing vessels; fastidious about something.

Passage: the action or process of moving through, over, under, or past something on the way to someplace else; the action or process of moving forward.

Passel: a large group; A passel of pilgrims.

Pastiche: an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artists, or period; create a pastiche of an artist or work.

Pastoral: portraying country life especially in an idealized or romanticized from.

Sometimes you are searching, and sometimes you are finding. If you are like us, you are searching for paradise (synonyms: heaven, delight, joy, bliss, rapture). This month we find it, not only outside the door, but hidden among the P’s of the Oxford English Dictionary. Keep searching, you just never know where it might turn up.

Until next time