Word-Wednesday for July 21, 2021

And here is the Wannaskan Almanac for Word-Wednesday, July 21, 2021, the 29th Wednesday of the year, the fifth Wednesday of summer, and the 202nd day of the year, with 163 days remaining.


Wannaska Nature Update for July 21, 2021
The Lupins are in Bloom!

Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore,
Galloping through the sward,
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore,
And his horse Concorde.
He steals from the rich and
Gives to the poor.
Mr Moore, Mr Moore, Mr Moore. 

Nordhem Lunch: Closed.


Earth/Moon Almanac for July 21, 2021
Sunrise: 5:43am; Sunset: 9:17pm; 2 minutes, 19 seconds less daylight today
Moonrise: 7:41pm; Moonset: 92:42am, waxing gibbous, 87% illuminated.


Temperature Almanac for July 21, 2021
                Average            Record              Today
High             79                     96                     75
Low              56                     43                     64


July 21 Celebrations from National Day Calendar

• National Junk Food Day
• National Be Someone Day
• National Hot Dog Day
• No Pet Store Puppies Day

July 21 Word Riddle
What do a wood tick and the Eiffel Tower have in common?*


July 21 Pun
My brother’s wife said he had no sense of direction, so he packed up his bags and right.


July 21 The Roseau Times-Region Headline:
Minnesota National Guard Plants 30,000 Saplings in Response to Call for More Infant-Tree


July 21 Etymology Word of the Week
respect: /rəˈspekt/ late Middle English: from Latin respectus, from the verb respicere “look back at, regard”, from re- “back” + specere “look at”. By contrast, disrespect suggests “to look down upon”. When we consciously respect another person, a principle, or even ourselves, we experience a natural pause, a turning back to more deeply reflect, where respect achieves the status of noun, verb, and process.


July 21 Notable Historic Events, Literary or Otherwise, from On This Day

• 1853 Central Park in New York created when New York State Legislature puts aside more than 750 acres of land on Manhattan Island.
• 1969 Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM.
• 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the series by J. K. Rowling is published.

July 21 Author/Artist/Character Birthdays, from On This Day

• 1664 Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat.
• 1870 Emil Orlik, Czech painter.
• 1899 Ernest Hemingway, American author.
• 1899 Hart Crane, American poet.
• 1911 Marshall McLuhan, Canadian writer.
• 1920 Isaac Stern, American-Ukrainian violinist.
• 1924 Don Knotts, American actor.
• 1944 Paul Wellstone, American politician.
• 1948 Cat Stevens singer [Steven Demetre Georgiou; Yusaf Islam].
• 1948 Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury cartoonist.
• 1951 Robin Williams, professional wrestler.

July 21, 2021 Song of Myself
Verse 38 of 52
Enough! enough! enough!
Somehow I have been stunn’d. Stand back!
Give me a little time beyond my cuff’d head, slumbers, dreams, gaping,
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

That I could forget the mockers and insults!
That I could forget the trickling tears and the blows of the bludgeons and hammers!
That I could look with a separate look on my own crucifixion and bloody crowning.

I remember now,
I resume the overstaid fraction,
The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided to it, or to any graves,
Corpses rise, gashes heal, fastenings roll from me.

I troop forth replenish’d with supreme power, one of an average unending procession,
Inland and sea-coast we go, and pass all boundary lines,
Our swift ordinances on their way over the whole earth,
The blossoms we wear in our hats the growth of thousands of years.

Eleves, I salute you! come forward!
Continue your annotations, continue your questionings.


Words-I-Looked-Up-This-Week Writer's Challenge
Make a single sentence (or poem) from the following words:

• ailuromancy: /ahy-LOOR-oh-man-see/  n., divination using cats’ behavior or feces to predict future events, especially the weather.
• brayer: /ˈbrā-ər/ n., a printer’s hand-inking roller.
• cacafuego: /Kah-kah-FWAHY-goh/ n., a swaggering braggart or boaster; a total gobshite.
• egestuous: /ē-‘ges-tūəs/ adj., desperately poor.
• ferial: /ˈfe-rē-əl/ adj., denoting an ordinary weekday, as opposed to one appointed for a festival or fast.
• haver: /ˈhāvər/ v., Scottich, talk foolishly; babble.
• motet: /mōˈtet/ n., a short piece of sacred choral music, typically polyphonic and unaccompanied.
• odditorium: /a-ɑdəˈ-‘tɔō-ri-əm/ n., shop or venue for the display or sale of oddities or oddments, such as the Roseau County Fair.
• syzygy: /ˈsizijē/ n., a conjunction or opposition, especially of the moon with the sun.
• wame: /weīm/ n., Scottish, the belly or womb.

July 21, 2021 Word-Wednesday Feature
Autofill
/ˈȯ-tō-fil/ n., a software feature that automatically enters previously stored information or typing patterns into a data field, also known as auto-complete and auto-correct.

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From A Year with Rilke, July 21 Entry
I Have Hymns, from The Book of Hours I, 40

I have hymns you haven’t heard.

There is an upward soaring
in which I bend close.
You can barely distinguish me
from the things that kneel before me.

They are like sheep, they are grazing.
I am the shepherd on the brow of the hill.
When evening draws them home
I follow after, the dark bridge thudding,

and the vapor rising from their backs
hides my own homecoming.



Be better than yesterday,
learn a new word today,
try to stay out of trouble - at least until tomorrow,
and write when you have the time.

*They’re both Paris sites.