AZOKE

Azoke, a new word created to describe my forty year pursuit of the etymology of the anatomical term zygoma, which serendipitously led me to “a single truth”; a pre-med idea of mine that a life would be well spent if one could prove without doubt a single uncontested, irrefutable fact. Azoke is defined as ones search for their yoke to God. Zoke, another new word, is defined as the yoke which …

Zygoma is the name for the arch of bone that protects the temple of the human skull. For fifteen years I doggedly pursued how the word zygoma began and evolved. It’s first use was as an anatomic term in the second century A.D. by Claudius Galen the famous Greek physician , father of anatomical terminology. Through the years …

Zygon, from which zygoma is derived, is the common Greek word for yoke, one of man’s first words. The audible sound for the yoke concept existed even before the alphabet and writing. The first letter of the alphabet ‘A’, is a pictograph which represents an ancient oxen yoke, chosen to become the first grammatical implement of …

Today was just an ordinary day, June 19, 1990– until it happened. Out of the blue, with no warning, it came. During a shower while shampooing my hair, eyes closed, I lifted my head to wash away the soap when suddenly: lighted, florescent, translucent, bright red neon letters danced across my field of vision. From …

Mitch’s Letter First Open Declaration On Apr 20, 2013, at 6:44 PM, Michael R. wrote: Hi Walter, My L5 collapsed several years ago…. now L4 has followed along. And next week or so they’re gonna zap my right kidney with sound waves to try to break up a new stone. Interesting the way one’s body …

    Entry#6 The Coming Out   The answer, as to how I am able to give public testimony of my faith just three years after the reservation expressed to Mitch in 2013 not to share my letter to anyone unless I should die and it be unpublished, has four parts. The first part is …

Entry#7   Name Change Coincidence:   Insignificant as it must seem to others, the most recent coincidence occurred with the expected blog name Zygoma, my first and only choice for the title as I planned for the blog to mirror chronologically my journey’s search for the truth of an anatomical term, followed by a language-etymology …

Azoke Origin: You won’t find azoke in your dictionary as it is a new word, a neologism created to describe my pursuit of zygoma’s provenance. The word azoke came to me in 2011 in Los Angeles while registering my youngest son in the University of California, light design program, at Cal Arts. We were staying …

This is a true story how an error of anatomical terminology initiated my personal search for  truth in the confluence of medicine,language and spirituality. In the beginning the story was about the anatomical term zygoma; it became a story of the alphabet and man’s earliest words. It concludes with the spiritual revelation: a single truth …

As far back as I can remember I was searching for things and finding them. All kinds of things, four leaf clovers, keys rings, you name it, I could find it. My mother bragged on me so much I began thinking I had some special ability, so I wasn’t particularly surprised to find myself spending …

Saturday on facial  trauma call at the University of Alabama , Birmingham is never dull. Today was no exception. I was expecting the transfer of a patient with a simple fracture of the Zygoma. When the patient arrived he had a fracture of the Zygomatic bone, an entirely different facial bone, one fraught with significant …

Blog # 12 COMPLETION ! Alleluya : Hallelujah I SEE THE LIOHT!   As often happened, the path I’ve followed was dictated by unforeseen circumstances which proved to be intended. Such is the case with , “completion” blog # 12 . Entry # 8, “a coincidental neologism” , required so much time due to its …

As you can see I didn’t return to the” beginning” in Alabama 1972 as I stated I would at the end of Blog # 12. Instead,  I decided to introduce a recent academic video presentation  to give readers an example of the detailed and sound ” scientific methodology ” that I’ve practiced  for most of …

Blog # 14 Awakening Awakening is an interesting word as we most often think of it only related to sleep, yet by definition and use it’s an act or moment of suddenly becoming aware of something. I often find myself  thinking as I lie in bed, eyes still  closed perusing my night’s dream and meaning or …

Blog # 15 AWOKE I awoke 3-18-18 with these new thoughts: I had  tried to get beyond “Completion”.  There seemed little left to say; “my singular truth” proclaimed , the intuitive provincial eye of God leading my way,  and “The first breath of God”  proclaiming Yahweh, God’s personal name “heard”. I wanted  to share my …

  Before learning about synchronicity and meaningful coincidences, I never suspected that certain occasions and events along the way were anything more than the occasional happenstance, like finding a four leaf clover; rare but not particularly meaningful. Only now reflecting back on years of such instances, can I link such serendipitous moments to the zygoma …

Be sure to read Blog #16 as this addendum’s related to but occurred soon after I had published blog post 16.   I called Fausto two days ago,  Dec. 3, 2018 asking about the “partner bottle” he  sent me back in 2017 and his memory of the circumstances of finding it. Also I wanted to …

Blog #18 Joins Having completed  blog # 17 “ Postscript, Meaningful Coincidence” regarding the “Partner Restaurant” and “ Augury”. I’ve decided to share my serendipitous link with Dr.Karen Joins and the coincidence of his name as it relates to zygoma.  Dr. Joins and I first met in 1972, as I was beginning my Otolaryngology residency …