Word-Wednesday for March 9, 2022

And here is the Wannaskan Almanac with Word-Wednesday, March 9, 2022, the tenth Wednesday of the year, the twelfth Wednesday of winter, and the 68th day of the year, with 297 days remaining.


Wannaska Nature Update for March 9, 2022

(WonderWorldMotion)

 

Winter Trees
William Carlos Williams

All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.


March 9 Nordhem Lunch: Updated daily.


Earth/Moon Almanac for March 9, 2022
Sunrise: 6:50am; Sunset: 6:19pm; 3 minutes, 36 seconds more daylight today
Moonrise: 9:51am; Moonset: 1:24pm, waxing crescent, 36% illuminated.

Temperature Almanac for March 9, 2022
                Average            Record              Today
High             30                     48                      7
Low                7                    -35                    -9
Better Wannaska than Kansas:

March 9 Celebrations from National Day Calendar

• National Barbie Day
• National Crabmeat Day
• National Get Over it Day
• National Meatball Day
• National Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day
• World Panic Day

March 9 Word Riddle
What is History’s favorite word?*


March 9 Math Word Pun
2000 mocking birds = two kilomockingbirds
365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer = one Lite year
1,000,000 aches = one megahurtz
1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks = one literhosen
The rubber band pistol was confiscated by the Algebra teacher because it was a weapon of math distraction.


March 9 Etymology Word of the Week
Wednesday as curse-word Map

March 9 Notable Historic Events, Literary or Otherwise, from On This Day

• 1009 First known written mention of Lithuania, in the annals of Quedlinburg.
• 1497 Nicolaus Copernicus' first recorded astronomical observation.
• 1522 Martin Luther begins preaching his Invocavit Sermons in the German city of Wittenberg.
• 1689 Thomas Shadwell appointed second English Poet Laureate by William and Mary after John Dryden refuses to swear The Oath allegiance.
• 1776 Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations.
• 1839 Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours.
• 1858 Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox.
• 1907 Lady Gregory's Rising of the Moon premieres in Dublin.
• 1922 Eugene O'Neill's Hairy Ape premieres
• 1926 Bertha Landes elected first woman mayor of Seattle.
• 1954 Edward R. Murrow criticizes Sen Joseph McCarthy.

March 9 Author/Artist/Character Birthdays, from On This Day

• 1737 Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer.
• 1777 Aleksander Orłowski, Polish painter, cartoonist and graphic artist.
• 1814 Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet and painter.
• 1839 Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer and organist.
• 1856 Eddie Foy Sr. [Edwin Fitzgerald], Irish-American actor, singer, and dancer.
• 1865 Margaret Murray Washington, wife of Booker T. Washington and Lady Principal of Tuskegee.
• 1874 Richard Ohlsson, Swedish composer.
• 1883 Umberto Saba, Italian writer.
• 1892 David Garnett, English novelist and editor.
• 1892 Vita Sackville-West, English novelist, poet.
• 1910 Samuel Barber, American composer .
• 1918 Mickey Spillane [Frank Morrison Spillane], American mystery writer.
• 1928 Keely Smith [Dorothy Keely], American jazz and pop singer.
• 1930 Ornette Coleman, American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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

• aureate: /AWR-ee-eyt/ adj., of a golden color or brilliance; marked by grandiloquent speech.
• blissom: /‘bli-som/ v. int., lascivious; to be lustful; to be in heat (said of ewes).
• dimity: /ˈdi-mə-tē/ n., a hard-wearing, sheer cotton fabric woven with raised stripes or checks.
• edacious: /ih-DAY-shuhs/ adj., characterized by, or given to voracious eating; devouring or craving food in great quantities; having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit.
• mangonel: /ˈmaŋ-gə-ˌnel/ n., a military device for throwing stones or other missiles.
• outré: /oo-TREY/ adj., very strange, unusual, or shocking; violating convention or propriety; strange, unconventional, or bizarre.
• plisky: /PLIS-kee/ n., a mischievous trick; practical joke; prank; adj., mischievous; playful.
• rumbelow: /RUHM-bih-loh/ n., a meaningless word found in the refrain of some sea shanties, see also, awimbawe.
• saeculum: /ˈsek-yə-ləm/ n., the span of time lived by the oldest person present; the word means the expanse of time during which something is in living memory.
• wraith: /rāTH/ n., a ghost or ghostlike image of someone, especially one seen shortly before or after their death.

March 9, 2021 Word-Wednesday Feature
good
/ɡo͝od/ adj., to be desired or approved of; n., that which is morally right; righteousness; adv., well. Focusing on the etymology of its noun form, good comes from the Old English gōd (with a long "o"), "that which is good, a good thing; goodness; advantage, benefit; gift; virtue; property;" from good (adj.). Meaning "the good side" (of something) is from 1660s. Phrase for good "finally, permanently" attested from 1711, a shortening of for good and all (16c.). Middle English had for good ne ylle (early 15c.) "for good nor ill," thus "under any circumstance." So appropriate that the phonetic spelling includes a smile.

Since there can never be too much good on Word-Wednesday, and since the good is in boundless supply depending entirely on our personal motivations to be so, today's post features some good words:

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

W. H. AUDEN

Find the good and praise it.

ALEX HALEY

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

FRANCIS BACON

Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others, this is my criterion of goodness.

ROBERT BURNS

Only the Good discerns the good.

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

ANNE FRANK

True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.

ELLEN GLASGOW

As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms that I was formerly.

DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. 

ARISTOTLE

Confidence in the goodness of others is no slight testimony to one’s own goodness; and so God gladly favors it.

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.

WILLIAM SAROYAN

There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

It is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem to fill the world; and by their noise to multiply their numbers.

HANNAH MORE

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

H. A. OVERSTREET

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

MARCUS AURELIUS

That best portion of a good man’s life,
His little, nameless, unremembered, acts
Of kindness and of love.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

MARK TWAIN

From A Year with Rilke, March 9 Entry
The Prisoner, from New Poems

My hand has one gesture left:
to push things away.
From the rock dampness drips
on old stones.

This dripping is all I can hear.
My heart keeps pace
with the drops falling
and sinks away with them.

If the drops fall faster
an animal might come to drink.
Somewhere it is brighter than this—
but what do we know.

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.


*itself.