Feel it, know it, live it
It's amazing that I named this blog "These things I know" and proceeded to write about things I know without actually expressing what I mean by 'know and knowing'. This blog was started through me and not by me and so I didn't have time to scrutinise (thank the Lords) what was meant the title, I simply received it and knew that this was it.... But my relationship with 'knowing' has significantly evolved since receiving that first impulse to begin the blog. I used to believe that 'knowing' is about understanding something, having a thing or concept 'make sense' to me and any individual with a sound mind. The Oxford Dictionary concurs with my limited (now I know) perspective of knowing. According to this version, to know is to "have information in your mind as a result of experience or because you have learned or been told of it" (Oxford University Press, 2010:826). I refer to this definition as limited because it r...