Moving forward/learning more

Etymology never stops being interesting.
Life's been busy since the last post -- looking forward to others who are taking a breather in life or ready for a landing place in linguistics to add a thought or two or three.
Discovering Aramaic -- continuing the study of and meditation on biblical Greek and Latin --- and the implications of words which are translated and then have been placed in amber.
Gifted with the complete John McWhorter course on linguistics for the holidays. I am so ready to get lost in the world and implications which McWhorter builds so beautifully. (Read "Power of Babel" or "Authentically Black" or, frankly, anything by McWhorter.)
What have you been reading/pondering about recently?