"Illuminated Manuscript: A book written by hand, decorated with paintings and ornaments of different kinds. The word `illuminated' comes from a usage of the Latin word 'illuminare' in connection with oratory or prose style, where it means `adorn'."  (Source: WebMuseum, Paris, www.ibiblio.org/wm/rh/glo/illuminated.html)

"Serious illness interrupts life, bringing ordinary life to a halt with the
force of a natural disaster, reshaping life into unrecognizably
new forms, where nothing is the same again. Catapulting those
affected into soul crisis, illness surfaces existential questions

The word ‘ordinary’ became important to me when I realized that the root of ‘ordinary’ and ‘ordination’ were the same. 'Ord’ means ‘regular’.

Much of my adult life I have been a ‘spiritual seeker.’ The object of my seeking hasn’t always been crystal clear—something to believe in I suppose—and the path taken not always straight and narrow. I have also been something of a skeptic—not a cynic, but a skeptic. I seldom consciously accept belief paradigms at face value.