lacuna

This lacuna brings to mind the last words in my 2011 Death By China film uttered by former Congressman Dana Rohrabacher: “China has been treating us like fools. And that’s because we have been fools.”

And it includes the cavities - called lacuna - that fill with the mother's blood to transfer nutrients to the baby.

“Islamic material has been something of a lacuna for them.”

A single palm-size vertebra, its central lacuna heart-shaped, had us wondering about its origin story.

Of course, we all have these lacunas in our reading histories.