And here is the Wannaskan Almanac for Word-Wednesday, April 4, 2018, brought to you by the Roseau Public Library, and by The Plaid Walleye, another proud sponsor of Roseau Dough Drawings, "Why draw with anything else?"
April 4 is the 94th day of the year with 271 days remaining until the end of the year, but only 38 days remaining until Mothers Day, and counting...
Earth/Moon Almanac for April 4, 2018
Sunrise: 6:55am; Sunset: 7:58pm
For today, the moon rose yesterday and will not set until tomorrow.
Temperature Almanac for April 4, 2018
Average Record Today
High 44 73 30
Low 23 -15 11
April 4 is the 94th day of the year with 271 days remaining until the end of the year, but only 38 days remaining until Mothers Day, and counting...
Earth/Moon Almanac for April 4, 2018
Sunrise: 6:55am; Sunset: 7:58pm
For today, the moon rose yesterday and will not set until tomorrow.
Temperature Almanac for April 4, 2018
Average Record Today
High 44 73 30
Low 23 -15 11
April 4 Celebrations
National School Librarian Day
National Walk Around Things Day
Notable historic April 4 events, literary or otherwise, include:
Ignatius of Loyola becomes the Jesuit's 1st superior-general, 1541
Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor in Argonia, Kansas, 1887
George Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good" premieres in New York City, 1932
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984 begins his secret diary, 1984
April 4 author/artist birthdays include:
Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, also coined the word "Gotham" to refer to New York City, born April 3, 1783 at midnight, so close enough for Word-Wednesday
Margaret Oliphant, Scotland, Beleaguered City, novelist/biographer, 1828
Louise de Vilmorin, Lutin Sauvage, French poet/author, 1902
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Cheaper by the Dozen, American author, 1908
Muddy Waters [McKinley Morganfield], Hoochie Coochie Man, American blues guitarist, 1913
Jan Drda, Nema Barikada, Mestecko Na Dlani, Czech writer, 1915
Lars Ahlin, Death of Me, Swedish writer, 1915
Maya Angelou [Marguerite Johnson], I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, American author, 1928
Words I looked up this week: Anabaptist, arborescent, atavistic, chiliastic, dogend, farrago, knell, kohl, radiolarian, sigil
Today's Riddle:
A mile from end to end, I'm as close to you as your next friend. Found on rich and poor, found on short and tall, shared among children most of all. Who am I?*
In response to the chilled atmospheres of both the Palmville Township skies and our national discourse, today's edition of Wannaskan Almanac Word-Wednesday is devoted to the word, compassion. The OED defines compassion as "sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others", from Late Latin compassionem (nominative compassio) "sympathy," from com "with, together" + pati "to suffer". But like so many words, definitions fall short of the mark. Thankfully, a few authors have fleshed out richer meanings:
Can I see another’s woe
And not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another’s grief,
and not seek for kind relief?
William Blake
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him:"What are you going through?"
National School Librarian Day
National Walk Around Things Day
Notable historic April 4 events, literary or otherwise, include:
Ignatius of Loyola becomes the Jesuit's 1st superior-general, 1541
Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor in Argonia, Kansas, 1887
George Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good" premieres in New York City, 1932
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984 begins his secret diary, 1984
April 4 author/artist birthdays include:
Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, also coined the word "Gotham" to refer to New York City, born April 3, 1783 at midnight, so close enough for Word-Wednesday
Margaret Oliphant, Scotland, Beleaguered City, novelist/biographer, 1828
Louise de Vilmorin, Lutin Sauvage, French poet/author, 1902
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Cheaper by the Dozen, American author, 1908
Muddy Waters [McKinley Morganfield], Hoochie Coochie Man, American blues guitarist, 1913
Jan Drda, Nema Barikada, Mestecko Na Dlani, Czech writer, 1915
Lars Ahlin, Death of Me, Swedish writer, 1915
Maya Angelou [Marguerite Johnson], I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, American author, 1928
Words I looked up this week: Anabaptist, arborescent, atavistic, chiliastic, dogend, farrago, knell, kohl, radiolarian, sigil
Today's Riddle:
A mile from end to end, I'm as close to you as your next friend. Found on rich and poor, found on short and tall, shared among children most of all. Who am I?*
In response to the chilled atmospheres of both the Palmville Township skies and our national discourse, today's edition of Wannaskan Almanac Word-Wednesday is devoted to the word, compassion. The OED defines compassion as "sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others", from Late Latin compassionem (nominative compassio) "sympathy," from com "with, together" + pati "to suffer". But like so many words, definitions fall short of the mark. Thankfully, a few authors have fleshed out richer meanings:
Can I see another’s woe
And not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another’s grief,
and not seek for kind relief?
William Blake
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him:"What are you going through?"
Simone Weil
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
Sir Thomas Browne
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts.
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
Sir Thomas Browne
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts.
Daniel Goleman
Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Compassion is probably the only antitoxin of the soul. Where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Compassion is probably the only antitoxin of the soul. Where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Eric Hoffer
In languages that derive from Latin, ‘compassion’ means we cannot look
on cooly as others suffer. Milan Kundera [born April 1, 1929, in Brno,
Czech Republic]
Compassion in the highest degree is the divinest form of religion.
Compassion in the highest degree is the divinest form of religion.
Alice Meynell
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow.
Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow.
Noah Webster
Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
Anaïs Nin
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings.
Thomas Merton
Be more kinder and warmer than yesterday, learn a new word today, and to stay out of trouble - at least until tomorrow.
*Your smile
Anaïs Nin
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings.
Thomas Merton
Be more kinder and warmer than yesterday, learn a new word today, and to stay out of trouble - at least until tomorrow.
*Your smile
Hmmm...is that a Wannaskan out there chopping ice?
ReplyDeleteAye, it is and a Palmvilleian, to boot. We're no wimps when it comes to participating in the yearly P.P.P., (Palmville's Polar Plunge) Fundraiser. As you may have observed, polar plunges often have large holes cut in the ice by chainsaws, probably by non-participants. Here in Palmville, the rule is plungers must provide their own holes. Using a single-bit ax, this Palmvilleian not only provides his, but builds a sweat doing it even while immersed to his knees in ice-cold Minnesota water. Although this gentleman 'bares' a remarkable likeness to Ula Josephson of eastern Palmville, he is somewhat more advanced in age, I surmise, having never seen Mr. Josephson nekked.
ReplyDeleteUla has a bigger axe you bet
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