The Heart of Joy: Soliloquies on Sorrow

Notes For the Reformation: an Appendix, Part II: The disordinary

The Disordinary

Just a few notes here before we begin, on my use of the word "disordinary.”

This is a newborn word of my own invention. It’s meant to indicate a specific and particular state. That is, it is meant to represent what we usually call our “ordinary” state.

It has become the fashion, over many years, to describe our ordinary state as though it w…