The sound of an ephemeral podcast

Welcome back to Today's Podcast. I am sorry I have been gone for so long. As you may have heard my girlfriend and I just moved to Ohio. That combined with a trip to Boston, a new business and a road trip from Colorado to Ohio I have not made the time to podcast. But fear not I have built up quite a collection of words for future shows.

For today we have the word ephemeral. I came across it on David Allan's blog. Ephemeral is a noun describing something short lived or fleeting. It can also describe something lasting a single day. For example even the greatest kiss is ephemeral.

Ephemeral is also a noun- something that is short lived or disappears quickly. We could use ephemeral to refer to a kiss, "It is the most sweet ephemeral."

David Allan uses it in describing his realization that life and health are precious and don't last forever.

From the same post I have a quote too:

To lose one's health renders science null, art inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.

- Herophilus

Herophilus was a 3rd century BC greek physician. He was the first to base his methods and treatment on actual dissections of the human body.

Ephemeral, like Herophilus, comes from the Greek. Hemera is Greek for day and the prefix epi has a lot of possible translations including- at, close, upon, toward or against.