And here is the Wannaskan Almanac for Word-Wednesday, January 2, 2019, brought to you by Debbie's Drop&Go Daycare, rural Badger, featuring our climate-controlled drop off alcove so that you don't have to waste time bringing your kid inside. Always open, just honk twice. $10/hour, cash only, child returned upon payment in full.
January 2 is the 2nd day of the year, with 33 days remaining until the end of the year, 89 days remaining until April Fools Day, and 1,147 days until Twosday, February 22, 2022.
Nordhem Lunch: Hot Ham Sandwich with Potatoes & Gravy
Earth/Moon Almanac for January 2, 2019
Sunrise: 8:17am; Sunset: 4:38pm
Moonrise: 4:53am; Moonset: 2:29pm, waning crescent
January 2 Celebrations from National Day Calendar
If the person who named walkie-talkies was in charge of naming everything,
forks would be called *
wigs would be called **
winter socks would be called ***
defibrillators would be called ****
January 2 Notable Historic Events, Literary or Otherwise, from On This Day
January 2 Author/Artist Birthdays, from On This Day
January 2 is the 2nd day of the year, with 33 days remaining until the end of the year, 89 days remaining until April Fools Day, and 1,147 days until Twosday, February 22, 2022.
Nordhem Lunch: Hot Ham Sandwich with Potatoes & Gravy
Earth/Moon Almanac for January 2, 2019
Sunrise: 8:17am; Sunset: 4:38pm
Moonrise: 4:53am; Moonset: 2:29pm, waning crescent
January 2 Celebrations from National Day Calendar
- National Science Fiction Day
- National Personal Trainer Awareness Day
- National Buffet Day
- National Cream Puff Day
If the person who named walkie-talkies was in charge of naming everything,
forks would be called *
wigs would be called **
winter socks would be called ***
defibrillators would be called ****
January 2 Notable Historic Events, Literary or Otherwise, from On This Day
- 1843 Richard Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman premieres
- 1881 Camille Saint-Saëns' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres
- 1983 Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing Doonesbury
January 2 Author/Artist Birthdays, from On This Day
- 1920 Isaac Asimov
Words-I-Looked-Up-This-Week Writer's Challenge
Make a single sentence (or poem) from the following words:
Make a single sentence (or poem) from the following words:
- auriculatum: any of a number of modified zooids that take the form of a pair of snapping jaws resembling a bird's head, serving to prevent other organisms from settling on the colony. Compare with vibraculum.
- apostasy: the abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief.
- diagesis: the story depicted on screen, as opposed to the story in real time that the screen narrative is about. Diegesis may concern elements, such as characters, events, and things within the main or primary narrative.
- gonif: a disreputable or dishonest person (often used as a general term of abuse).
- grimoire: a book of magic spells and invocations.
- kybo: Australian slang a temporary lavatory constructed for use when camping.
- rota: a list showing when each of a number of people has to do a particular job.
- sigil: an inscribed or painted symbol considered to have magical power.
- telephatic: capable of transmitting thoughts to other people and of knowing their thoughts; psychic.
January 2 Word-Wednesday Feature
Magic Words
What better way to for writers to start out the new year? "...there's magic in thy majesty!"
William Shakespeare, A Winter's Tale
Magic, the power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces, a word derived from late Middle English (also in the sense ‘a magical procedure’): from Old French magique, from Latin magicus (adjective), late Latin magica (noun), from Greek magikē (tekhnē ) ‘(art of) a magus’: magi, Persian priests who were regarded as magicians.
A writer's magic often includes tricks, sleight of hand, or even hocus pocus to enchant a reader. Depending on style, a writer's magic may cast a spell and charm the reader like a delightful song, where the word charm is derived from the Latin, canere, to sing or chant.
Prose or poetry that conjures unbidden feelings or insights may be a writer's most powerful magic. In addition to the familiar meaning of the word, to make something appear out of thin air, the word conjure is derived from the Latin, con- and jurare, with and to swear, as in the partnering with a supernatural force.
Whatever your style and preferred magic, may your words in the coming year be grounded in the ritual of your steady practice, arise like incantations from the fertile places of your imagination, and speak to the supernatural that your readers long to hear.
Otherwise, write more magically that last year, learn a new writing prestidigitation this year, and try to stay out of trouble - at least until tomorrow, please, and thank you.
* stabby-grabbies
** hairy-wearies
*** feetie-heaties
**** hearty-starties
Magic Words
What better way to for writers to start out the new year? "...there's magic in thy majesty!"
William Shakespeare, A Winter's Tale
Magic, the power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces, a word derived from late Middle English (also in the sense ‘a magical procedure’): from Old French magique, from Latin magicus (adjective), late Latin magica (noun), from Greek magikē (tekhnē ) ‘(art of) a magus’: magi, Persian priests who were regarded as magicians.
A writer's magic often includes tricks, sleight of hand, or even hocus pocus to enchant a reader. Depending on style, a writer's magic may cast a spell and charm the reader like a delightful song, where the word charm is derived from the Latin, canere, to sing or chant.
Prose or poetry that conjures unbidden feelings or insights may be a writer's most powerful magic. In addition to the familiar meaning of the word, to make something appear out of thin air, the word conjure is derived from the Latin, con- and jurare, with and to swear, as in the partnering with a supernatural force.
Whatever your style and preferred magic, may your words in the coming year be grounded in the ritual of your steady practice, arise like incantations from the fertile places of your imagination, and speak to the supernatural that your readers long to hear.
Otherwise, write more magically that last year, learn a new writing prestidigitation this year, and try to stay out of trouble - at least until tomorrow, please, and thank you.
* stabby-grabbies
** hairy-wearies
*** feetie-heaties
**** hearty-starties
A poem in which the Chairman stoops to...hey! How about respecting my privacy!
ReplyDeleteA kybo’s really just a hole in the ground,
Often square or oval, but usually round.
Only a gonif of a kind far gone,
Would deny the call from his very own john.
Are you a male, are you a female?
Please check the door for your personal sigil.
Even auriculata are forced to do it.
If they won’t, well by gum, we’ll have to shoo it.
Apostasy, folks, this may be,
But it can even be done behind a tree.
Of thus and such I’ve filled my quota.
It’s on the top of my a.m. rota.
It’s a job with which we’re all empathetic.
Bottom line, don’t try to do it, telephatic.
If my diagesis you simply can’t digest,
Then search your own grimoire for perhaps a finer jest.
Good job! With your permission, I'd like to post a signed copy of this pram in the outhouse.
ReplyDeletePermiso concedido.
DeleteWill there be an onion skin dictionary handy?