Definition: a star that guides; a goal to achieve; a future plan
“Lode” is Middle English for “course.” So, literally, it means “a star that shows the course.”
In The Covenant, in discussing a family’s history in England:
But each brother knew there would be no revisiting, not for them. But for their children’s children, [England] would always be a lodestar.
There are “epic” novels, and then there’s this. It’s the history of South Africa, starting in 14,000 BC and ending in 1978. There are 14 chapters, and each chapter handles a different time period. We start about 10,000 years back with cave dwellers wandering the southern part of the continent,…
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