And here is the Wannaskan Almanac for Word-Wednesday, June 20, 2018, brought to you by the Roseau Civic and Commerce Association, Go Explore! Feels like home.
June 20 is the 171st day of the year, with days 194 remaining until the end of the year, and 285 days remaining until April Fools Day.
Earth/Moon Almanac for June 20, 2018
Sunrise: 5:20am; Sunset: 9:31pm
Moonrise: 1:36pm Moonset: 1:46am, waxing gibbous
Temperature Almanac for June 20, 2018
Average Record Today
High 74 94 86
Low 49 28 58
June 20 Celebrations from National Day Calendar
National Hike with a Geek Day
National Kouign Amann Day
American Eagle Day
National Ice Cream Soda Day
National Vanilla Milkshake Day
June 20 Haiku Riddle
One page on another
dark stains in ordered patters
knowledge bound together.*
June 20 Notable historic events, literary or otherwise, from On This Day
1214 The University of Oxford receives its charter
1840 Samuel Morse patents his telegraph [.---- ---.. ....- ----- / ... .- -- ..- . .-.. / -- --- .-. ... . / .--. .- - . -. - ... / .... .. ... / - . .-.. . --. .-. .- .--. ....]
1895 1st female PhD from an American University, earned by Caroline Willard Baldwin (in Science) at Cornell University
1909 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham & Eleanor Waring)
1911 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) incorporates
1980 "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akroyd & John Belushi opens in 594 theaters
June 20 author/artist birthday, from On This Day
1674 Nicholas Rowe, English poet and playwright Tamerlane, Poet Laureate, 1715-18
1891 John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
1905 Lillian Hellman, American playwright, Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes
1929 Edith Windsor [née Schlain], American LGBT rights activist, lead plaintiff in United States v. Windsor
Words I looked up this week: docent, effete, epicene, ictus, impasto, pera bouffe, pétanque, plimsoll, recondite, Taoiseach, valetudinarian
Today's edition of Wannaskan Almanac Word-Wednesday explores nothing, where the idea for this theme came from Teresa's dad, Einar, during our conversation on the porch on Fathers Day. Einar was telling me about the use of the Swedish language by his mother in his childhood. Then he told me about Chairman Joe's passing interest in learning Swedish some time after Joe and Teresa met in Massachusetts. Einar asked Chairman Joe what words he wanted to learn, and Joe responded, "Nothing", which Einar told me is "ingenting" in Swedish.
Here are a few more sweet nothings, all in English:
absent
aught
bagatelle
blank
bupkis
cipher
crumb
diddly
duck egg
empty
extinct
nada
naught
nebbish
nihility
nix
nobody
nonbeing
nonentity
nonexistence
nothingness
nought
nowt
nullity
obliteration
oblivion
pip-squeak
scratch
shrimp
shutout
silent
small beer
Sweet Fanny Adams
trifle
useless
void
zero
zilch
zip
zot
So what can be said about nothing? Actually, quite a lot:
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
June 20 is the 171st day of the year, with days 194 remaining until the end of the year, and 285 days remaining until April Fools Day.
Earth/Moon Almanac for June 20, 2018
Sunrise: 5:20am; Sunset: 9:31pm
Moonrise: 1:36pm Moonset: 1:46am, waxing gibbous
Temperature Almanac for June 20, 2018
Average Record Today
High 74 94 86
Low 49 28 58
June 20 Celebrations from National Day Calendar
National Hike with a Geek Day
National Kouign Amann Day
American Eagle Day
National Ice Cream Soda Day
National Vanilla Milkshake Day
June 20 Haiku Riddle
One page on another
dark stains in ordered patters
knowledge bound together.*
June 20 Notable historic events, literary or otherwise, from On This Day
1214 The University of Oxford receives its charter
1840 Samuel Morse patents his telegraph [.---- ---.. ....- ----- / ... .- -- ..- . .-.. / -- --- .-. ... . / .--. .- - . -. - ... / .... .. ... / - . .-.. . --. .-. .- .--. ....]
1895 1st female PhD from an American University, earned by Caroline Willard Baldwin (in Science) at Cornell University
1909 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham & Eleanor Waring)
1911 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) incorporates
1980 "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akroyd & John Belushi opens in 594 theaters
June 20 author/artist birthday, from On This Day
1674 Nicholas Rowe, English poet and playwright Tamerlane, Poet Laureate, 1715-18
1891 John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
1905 Lillian Hellman, American playwright, Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes
1929 Edith Windsor [née Schlain], American LGBT rights activist, lead plaintiff in United States v. Windsor
Words I looked up this week: docent, effete, epicene, ictus, impasto, pera bouffe, pétanque, plimsoll, recondite, Taoiseach, valetudinarian
Today's edition of Wannaskan Almanac Word-Wednesday explores nothing, where the idea for this theme came from Teresa's dad, Einar, during our conversation on the porch on Fathers Day. Einar was telling me about the use of the Swedish language by his mother in his childhood. Then he told me about Chairman Joe's passing interest in learning Swedish some time after Joe and Teresa met in Massachusetts. Einar asked Chairman Joe what words he wanted to learn, and Joe responded, "Nothing", which Einar told me is "ingenting" in Swedish.
absent
aught
bagatelle
blank
bupkis
cipher
crumb
diddly
duck egg
empty
extinct
nada
naught
nebbish
nihility
nix
nobody
nonbeing
nonentity
nonexistence
nothingness
nought
nowt
nullity
obliteration
oblivion
pip-squeak
scratch
shrimp
shutout
silent
small beer
Sweet Fanny Adams
trifle
useless
void
zero
zilch
zip
zot
So what can be said about nothing? Actually, quite a lot:
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer [nice squib!]
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
There is nothing permanent except change.
There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Lao Tzu
Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
Emily Dickinson
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
W. C. Fields
From A Year with Rilke, June 20 entry:
"With Each Thing" from Early Journals
Who can say what is? Who is able to judge the true worth of things?
I can only measure the world in terms of longing.
all things are so ready to accommodate our many and often mistaken thoughts and wishes. With each thing I would like to rest for a night, after a day of "doing" with other things. I would like to sleep once with each thing, nestled in its warmth; to dream in the rhythm of its breathing, its dear, naked neighborliness against my limbs, and grow strong in the fragrance of its sleep. Then, early in the morning, before it awakens, before any good-byes, to move on, to move on...
Be better than yesterday, learn a new word today, and to stay out of trouble - at least until tomorrow.
*Book
From A Year with Rilke, June 20 entry:
"With Each Thing" from Early Journals
Who can say what is? Who is able to judge the true worth of things?
I can only measure the world in terms of longing.
all things are so ready to accommodate our many and often mistaken thoughts and wishes. With each thing I would like to rest for a night, after a day of "doing" with other things. I would like to sleep once with each thing, nestled in its warmth; to dream in the rhythm of its breathing, its dear, naked neighborliness against my limbs, and grow strong in the fragrance of its sleep. Then, early in the morning, before it awakens, before any good-byes, to move on, to move on...
Be better than yesterday, learn a new word today, and to stay out of trouble - at least until tomorrow.
*Book
I suspect that you are a two handed typist and a left & right brained thinker and all of your blog this week was written straight out of your head, as always, non-stop, the keyboard e're so slowly moving across your desktop with lively exclamations unheard by human ears, and minute pauses, for but a sip of tea, or pat of a dog's body leaning briefly against your bare leg and you're back typing gazing at the monitor speed reading the whole page in one sweep, page content spewing from your fingertips, a smile across your lips. You enjoy these exercises. Good job!
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