The Kardia Remark
“Awake, O north wind, And come, O south!”About
The Kardia Remark is a journal of my thoughts, views, and sharable aspects of my life as an Australian follower of Jesus who does not identify with a denomination.
This follows the tragic, yet inevitable, run out of passion and consistency in updating my last blog, Mandatory Minimums.
Some scholarly readers might have noted that kardia is an Ancient Greek word for ‘heart’. I use it to mean the core, centre, and crux of a person’s being, not the fluffy feminine image that Western culture has given ‘the heart’.
It also derives from the name of a Star Wars character that brilliant author Timothy Zahn created for the Thrawn Trilogy – Talon Karrde. I’m a bit of a Star Wars nerd, but for the sake of civilization here on this blog, I’ll try to keep my expressions of that to a minimum.
The word remark, as I use it, has a simpler meaning. I use it as a substitute for the more overused word journal. After choosing it, I realized it also has a connection to comedy TV series Seinfeld via ‘The Pony Remark’, but although I do watch it every few months, I’m less of a fan of it than other family members. 
Basically, The Kardia Remark is about the things I really believe in, the issues I am passionate about, the character of my life. I try to make it less self-centric and more God-centric, but please forgive any deviations from that.
“Awake, O north wind, And come, O south!” is a quote from the Song of Solomon. It’s a little more erotic in context, but I think it’s a good subtitle for a place where many things gather – a federation of ideas, so to speak (I just thought of that phrase then! I love it! ).
The domain name, fidesitineris.wordpress.com derives from the Latin words fides itneris, or ’truthful journey’… though it’s also defined as ‘assurance journey’, ‘trustworthy road’, and other phrases that I don’t mean it to mean. It’s what I strive for, among other things. But really, I needed a domain name, and I couldn’t think of many that are easy to type and not too nice sounding.
