Word-Wednesday for August 23, 2022

And here is the Wannaskan Almanac with Word-Wednesday for August 24, 2022, the thirty-fourth Wednesday of the year, the tenth Wednesday of summer, and the 236th day of the year, with 129 days remaining.


Wannaska Phenology Update for August 24, 2022
It’s Starting
Phenology, the study of cyclic and seasonal natural phenomena, especially in relation to climate and plant and animal life, doesn’t always herald good news - mosquitos, ticks, skunks. But as we ease out of summer into fall, just don’t think about winter, yet. We have plenty of Wednesdays to come before that cycle starts.

August 24 Fickle Pickle Wednesday Menu Special: Potato Dumpling


August 24 Nordhem Wednesday Lunch: Updated daily by 11:00am, usually.


Earth/Moon Almanac for August 24, 2022
Sunrise: 6:29am; Sunset: 8:23pm; 3 minutes, 22 seconds less daylight today
Moonrise: 3:05am; Moonset: 7:47pm, waning crescent, 6% illuminated.


Temperature Almanac for August 24, 2022
                Average            Record              Today
High             74                     97                     74
Low              51                     36                     52


August 24 Celebrations from National Day Calendar

• National Maryland Day
• National Peach Pie Day
• National Waffle Day
• International Strange Music Day
• Feast Day, Abbán of Ireland

August 24 Word Riddle
Where should the word “only” be placed in the following sentence?*


August 24 Word Pun
Sven takes a telephone message for Monique:

Someone called from the Gyna Colleges. She said the Pabst Beer is normal. I told you Guinness Stout was best!

August 24 Walking into a Bar Grammar
A tired old pun, an ex-lawyer, and a perennially favorite elephant were ejected from a bar — barren of humor, permanently disbarred and Babarred for life.


August 24 Etymology Word of the Week
What sound do frogs make? 

 

August 24 Notable Historic Events, Literary or Otherwise, from On This Day

• 1456 The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
• 1847 Charlotte Brontë finishes manuscript of Jane Eyre.
• 1932 First transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart.

August 24 Author/Artist/Character Birthdays, from On This Day

• 1531 Ercole Bottrigari, Italian composer.
• 1591 Robert Herrick, English poet, "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".
• 1817 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet, and playwright.
• 1839 Eduard Napravnik, Czech conductor and composer.
• 1872 Max Beerbohm, English caricaturist, writer, and parodist.
• 1898 Malcolm Cowley, American author.
• 1899 Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer.
• 1936 A. S. Byatt, English novelist.
• 1944 Rocky Johnson, Canadian pro wrestler.
• 1951 Orson Scott Card, American science fiction author.
• 1960 Tony Soprano.
• 1974 Órla Fallon, Irish traditional singer, Celtic harpist, and songwriter.

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

• bahdadur: /bə-ˈhȯ-də(r)/ n., a distinguished person - used as a title of respect.
• charette: /shuh-RET/ n., a period of intense work or creative activity undertaken to meet a deadline.
• exonumia: /ˌek-sə-ˈnü-mē-ə/ plural n., numismatic items (such as tokens, medals, or scrip) other than coins and paper money.
• fáinne: /ˈfɔnjə/ n., a ring-shaped brooch or pin worn to indicate that the wearer is a speaker of Irish and is willing to communicate in Irish.
• longanimity: /long-guh-NIM-uh-tee/ n., a disposition to bear injuries patiently; forbearance.
• maleficate: v., /ma-‘li-fi-kāt/to exert a baleful influence on; to bewitch.
• pandiculation: /pan-dik-yuh-LAY-shun/ n., a stretching and stiffening especially of the trunk and extremities (as when fatigued and drowsy or after waking from sleep).
• rongeur: /rōⁿ-ˈzhər/ n., a heavy-duty forceps for removing small pieces of bone or tough tissue; trans. v., to remove (bone or other tissue) with a rongeur.
• sumpsimus: /ˈsəmpsəməs/ n., adherence to or persistence in using a strictly correct term, holding to a precise practice, etc., as a rejection of an erroneous but more common form (opposed to mumpsimus).
  
• tracklement: /ˈtræ-kəl-mənt/ n., any savoury condiment or sauce served with meat.

August 24, 2022 Word-Wednesday Feature
kindness
/ˈkīn(d)-nəs/ n., the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. Today’s words about kindness are meant to be uplifting. Kindred qualities include: benevolence, care, compassion, concern, courtesy, friendliness, generosity, gentleness, goodness, goodwill, grace, helpfulness, hospitality, patience, sympathy, tenderness, thoughtfulness, tolerance, understanding, unselfishness. Kindness and it’s kin are notable among human values for putting the needs or interests of another on equal footing — if not above — those of one's own.

Other than Hamlet and Oscar Wilde, few persons have much negative to say about kindness, and today we stay positive today with the following words.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

AMELIA EARHART

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

AESOP

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

SCOTT ADAMS

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

JAMES BOSWELL

Kindness is love in action.

HENRY DRUMMOND

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

WILLA CATHER

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

JOSEPH JOUBERT

Kindness, at least actual, is in our power, but fondness is not.

DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON

Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.

LADY MACBETH

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty.

GEORGE ELIOT

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

ANDRE GIDE

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band,
Be kind to one another.
This is the Golden Rule of marriage,
and the secret of making love last through the years.

RANDOLPH RAY

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

TENZIN GYATSO, the 14th Dalai Lama

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty.

MOTHER TERESA

It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind
While just the art of being kind
So many paths that wind and wind
Is all the sad world needs.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

It is a terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have.

USRULA K. LE GUIN

From A Year with Rilke, August 24 Entry
The Knight, from Book of Images

The knight rides forth in coal-black steel
into the teeming world.

Outside his armor everything is there: sunlight and valley,
friend and foe and feast,
May, maiden, forest and grail,
and God himself in a thousand forms
to be found along every road.

But inside the armor darkly enclosing him
crouches death. And the thought comes
and comes again:
When will the blade
pierce this iron sheath,
the undeserved and liberating blade
that will fetch me from my hiding place
where I’ve been so long compressed—

so that, at last, I may stretch my limbs
and hear my full voice.

Winter Garden
by  Vincent van Gogh

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.






*anywhere, depending on what you want the sentence to mean. Similarly, the following sentence has different meanings depending on the word you stress when saying the sentence:
I never said she stole my money.