Word-Wednesday for June 27, 2018

And here is the Wannaskan Almanac for Word-Wednesday, June 27, 2018, brought to you by the Roseau Pioneer Farm and Village. Yes, we're still here; and yes, turn at the old green wagon.

June 27 is the 178th day of the year, with 187 days remaining until the end of the year, and 278 days remaining until April Fools Day.

Earth/Moon Almanac for June 27, 2018
Sunrise: 5:22am; Sunset: 9:31pm
Moonrise: 9:03pm Moonset: 5:09am, full moon

Temperature Almanac for June 27, 2018
              Average    Record   Today
High          76             91          83
Low           50            37          55

June 27 Celebrations from National Day Calendar
National Ice Cream Cake Day
National Orange Blossom Day
National PTSD Awareness Day
National Sunglasses Day
National Parchment Day

June 27 Riddle
From what 8-letter word can you remove one letter at a time, seven times, leaving all other letters in place, and still leave a word after each single letter is removed?*

June 27 Notable historic events, literary or otherwise, from On This Day
1358 Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
1693 1st women's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published in London
1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury, Connecticut
1894 American Annie Londonderry sets out to become first woman to bicycle around the world, completes her journey September 1895
1922 Newberry Medal first presented for children's literature to Hendrik Van Loon, for The Story of Mankind
1969 Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, NY, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days
1990 Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8600 to help their earthquake victims

June 27 author/artist birthdays, from On This Day
1859 Mildred J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You)
1872 Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet and novelist (Oak & Ivory)
1880 Helen Keller, American political activist, author (The Story of My Life) and lecturer, who was the 1st deaf-blind person to earn a BA, born in Tuscumbia, Alabama
1906 Catherine Cookson, English novelist (Bannaman Legacy)
1906 Vernon P Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd)
1910 Karel Reiner, Czech composer, born in Žatec, Bohemia
1927 Bob Keeshan, Lynbrook NY, aka Capt Kangaroo
19?? WannaskaWriter

Words I looked up this week: dabble, dint, hanker, icterus, mens rea, negroni, rondelay

Today's edition of Wannaskan Almanac Word-Wednesday explores some of the most famous and inspirational thoughts about Wednesday:
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everyday is Wednesday."
Albert Einstein

"Do what you can with what you've got whenever its Wednesday."
Theodore Roosevelt

"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except on Wednesday."
Henry Van Dyke

"It is not length of Life, but depth of life on Wednesday."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Laughter is the Wedneday of life."
Sir William Osler

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it within us on Wednesdays, or we will find it not."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"They who wonder discover that Wednesday itself is wonder."
M.C. Escher

"Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind in the world, and bettered the Wednesdays of mankind."
Robert Louis Stevenson

"Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing every Wednesday."
Cicero

"Anyone can become angry on Wednesday - that is easy, but to become angry with the right person on Wednesday, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy."
Aristotle

"Wednesday, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do."
Goethe

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong on Wednesday."
Ernest Hemingway

"Don't let your Tuesday use up too much of your Wednesday."
Will Rogers

"The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, Wednesdays, do not require coupons."
George T. Hewitt

"Goodness on Wednesday is the only investment that never fails."
Henry David Thoreau

"Life is what happens when you are busy making other Wednesday plans."
John Lennon

"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every Wednesday."
Sally Koch

"It's not denial. I'm selective about the Wednesday reality I accept."
Calvin

"We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great Wednesday. No matter how far apart we are, our Wednesdays links us."
Yoko Ono

"I like nonsense, it wakens up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's Wednesdays."
Dr. Seuss

"Nothing is worth more than this Wednesday."
Goethe

"Out of clutter, find simplicity; from discord, find harmony; in the middle of a difficult week, lies Wednesday."
Albert Einstein

"It's faith in Wednesday and enthusiasm for Friday that makes life worth living."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one Wednesday at a time."
Abraham Lincoln

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it only on Wednesday."
Buddha

"It is not the years in your life, but the life in your Wednesdays that counts the most."
Adlai Stevenson

From A Year with Rilke, June 27 entry:
Breath from Sonnets to Orpheus II

Breath, you invisible poem!
Pure, continuous exchange
with all that is, flow and counterflow
where rhythmically I come to be.

Each time a wave that occurs just once
in a sea I discover I am.
You, innermost of oceans,
you, infinitude of space.

How many far places were once
within me. Some winds
are like my own child.

When I breathe them now, do they know me again?
Air, you silken surround,
completion and seed of my words.

Be better than yesterday, learn a new word today, and to stay out of trouble - at least until tomorrow.

*STARTING, STARING, STRING, STING, SING, SIN, IN, I