What the El?

El is Hebrew for ‘the Lord.’

Lah is Arabic for ‘the Lord.’

Ecology is Greek for ‘home management.’

Economics is Greek for …also ‘home management.’

Logos is Greek for ‘a word.’

Enthusiasm is Greek for ‘god essence.’

Eudaimonia is Greek for ‘good spirited or ‘happiness.’

Ren is Chinese for ‘human.’

Atman is Sanskrit/Hindu for ‘essence’ and ‘self.’

Dao is Chinese for ‘the way.”

Brahma is Sanskrit for ‘supreme.’

Li is Chinese for ‘true.’

Idea is Greek for ‘to see.’

ESSEnce is Latin for ‘to be.’

Manual is Latin for “hand.’

Environment is old French for ‘to encircle, enclose, surround…’ ‘to circle’. “What goes around comes around.”

Alan Hagedorn