Word-Wednesday for January 11, 2023

 

And here is the Wannaskan Almanac with Word-Wednesday for January 11, 2023, the second Wednesday of the year, the fourth Wednesday of winter, and the eleventh day of the year, with three hundred fifty-four days remaining.

 
Wannaska Phenology Update for January 11, 2023
Winter Fog
Fog is actually more common in winter, when meteorologists have six categories — radiation, valley, upslope, evaporation, freezing, and frozen — each with a specific process that causes tiny water droplets to form and suspend in the air.

• Radiation fog forms overnight as the air near the ground cools and stabilizes, causing condensation of droplets via heat conduction. Radiation fog usually disappears as the sun rises and heats the ground.
• Valley fog happens when cold, dense air settles at the bottom of a valley as warmer air passes above.
• Advection [/ad-ˈvek-SH(ə)n/ n., the transfer of heat or matter by the flow of a fluid, especially horizontally in the atmosphere] fog is generated when very humid air passes over a cool surface, such as snow or a wintry sea.
• Upslope fog occurs as air cools rising up a snowy hill or cold mountainside, generally not a common occurrence in the Red River Valley or Kansas.
• Evaporation fog is produced when cold air passes over warmer water and moist land, so look for this fog around Lake of the Woods or Milford Lake.
• Freezing fog forms when air temperatures range between 10 and 30℉ in areas with near 100% humidity. The supercooled water droplets remain in the liquid state until they come into contact with a surface upon which they can freeze, forming feathery ice crystals. This is one of the kinds of fog we've been enjoying in Wannaska, recently.
• Frozen fog, or ice fog, appears primarily in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, where temperatures are minus 31℉ or colder. It features frozen, solid ice particles suspended in the air.

Hoar [/hôr/ adj., grayish white, showing signs of old age] frost is the crystalline deposit of frozen water vapor formed in clear, still weather on vegetation, fences, power lines, and any other object exposed to freezing fog. Hoar frost forms by the same process as dew whenever the temperature of the surface is below freezing point.

Rime /rīm/ n., is frost formed on cold objects by the rapid freezing of supercooled droplets of water vapor in winter fog.

January 11 Fickle Pickle Wednesday Menu Special: Potato Dumpling


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


Earth/Moon Almanac for January 11, 2023
Sunrise: 8:14am; Sunset: 4:49pm; 1 minutes, 51 seconds more daylight today
Moonrise: 9:43pm; Moonset: 10:56am, waning gibbous, 82% illuminated.


Temperature Almanac for January 11, 2023
                Average            Record              Today
High             13                     45                     28
Low             -8                    -45                     11


January 11 Celebrations from National Day Calendar

• Heritage Treasures Day
• National Arkansas Day
• National Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friends Day
• National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
• National Milk Day
• Kagami biraki

January 11 Word Riddle
What do you say to comfort a friend who’s struggling with grammar?*


January 11 Word Pun

My Year in Diets

Veganuary
Fibreuary
Starch
Cakepril
MaycaroniCheese
June&tonic
Julicecream
Augustickytoffeepudding
Septembeer
Octoblerone
Doughvember
Decemburger

Brian Bilston

January 11 Walking into a Bar Grammar
A bar was walked into by the passive voice.


January 11 Etymology Word of the Week
fog
fog: /fôɡ/ n., a thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface which obscures or restricts visibility, from "thick, obscuring mist," 1540s, a back-formation from foggy (which appeared about the same time) or from a Scandinavian source akin to Danish fog "spray, shower, snowdrift," Old Norse fjuk "drifting snow storm." Compare also Old English fuht, Dutch vocht, German feucht "damp, moist." Figurative phrase in a fog "at a loss what to do" first recorded c. 1600. Fog-lights is from 1962.

Fog
by Carl Sandberg

The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

January 11 Historic Events, Literary or Otherwise, from On This Day

• 1709 Colley Cibber's play Rival Fools premieres in London.
• 1774 Charles Messier adds M51 (spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici) to his catalog.
• 1787 Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel.
• 1838 ..-. .. .-. ... - / .--. ..- -... .-.. .. -.-. / -.. . -- --- -. ... - .-. .- - .. --- -. / --- ..-. / - . .-.. . --. .-. .- .--. .... / -- . ... ... .- --. . ... / ... . -. - / ..- ... .. -. --. / -.. --- - ... / .- -. -.. / -.. .- ... .... . ... / .- - / ... .--. . . -.. .-- . .-.. .-.. / .. .-. --- -. .-- --- .-. -.- ... / .. -. / -- --- .-. .-. .. ... - --- .-- -. --..-- / -. . .-- / .--- . .-. ... . -.-- / -... -.-- / ... .- -- ..- . .-.. / -- --- .-. ... . / .- -. -.. / .- .-.. ..-. .-. . -.. / ...- .- .. .-.. [First public demonstration of telegraph messages sent using dots and dashes at Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail].
• 1885 Henrik Ibsen's play Vildauden, (The Wild Duck) premieres in Oslo.
• 1917 Guy Bolton & P.G. Wodehouse's Have a Heart premieres.
• 1922 Insulin first used on humans to treat diabetes, when Frederick Banting injects fellow Canadian Leonard Thompson, aged 14.
• 1952 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore.
• 1959 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke.
• 1977 Bollingen Prize awarded to David Ignatow.

January 11 Author/Artist/Character Birthdays, from On This Day

• 1449 Domenico Ghirlandajo, Italian Renaissance painter and teacher of Michelangelo.
• 1503 Parmigianino [Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola], Italian artist.
• 1727 Franz Sebastian Haindl, German composer and violinist.
• 1825 Bayard Taylor, U.S. poet and writer.
• 1842 William James American psychologist and philosopher.
• 1853 Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter.
• 1853 Gustav Falke, German author and poet.
• 1870 Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor.
• 1879 Antonio Beltramelli, Italian writer.
• 1885 Alice Paul, American suffragist.
• 1887 Aldo Leopold, American conservationist.
• 1894 Jaroslav Vogel, Czech composer.
• 1903 Alan Paton, South African writer.
• 1921 Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler.
• 1029 Brian Friel, Irish dramatist, author and theatre director.
• 1942 Leo Cullum, American cartoonist.
• 1944 Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer.
• 1961 Jasper Fforde, British author.

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

• busk: /buhsk/ v. to entertain by dancing, singing, reciting, juggling, etc., on the street or in a public place.
• chassé: /SHa-’sā/ n., a gliding step in dancing in which one foot displaces the other.
• eidetic: /ī-ˈded-ik/ adj., relating to or denoting mental images having unusual vividness and detail, as if actually visible.
• militate: /ˈmil-ə-ˌtāt/ v., (of a fact or circumstance) be a powerful or conclusive factor in preventing.
• niveous: /NIV-ee-us/ adj., resembling snow; snowy.
• port de bras: /ˌpôr(t) də ˈbrä/ n., in ballet, an act or manner of moving and posing the arms.
• rubric: /ROO-ˌbrik/ n., a heading on a document.
• rubricate: /ROO-bri-keyt/ v., to mark or color with red; to furnish with or regulate by rubrics.
• substitious: /ˌsəb-ˈstiSHəs/ adj., justifiably disbelieving in supernatural beings or their influences, antonym of superstitious.
• tohubohu: /ˌtō-ho͞o-ˈbō-ho͞o/ n., a state of utter chaos; utter confusion.

January 11, 2023 Word-Wednesday Feature
patience
/ˈpā-SH(ə)ns/ n., the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset, from circa 1200, pacience, "quality of being willing to bear adversities, calm endurance of misfortune, suffering, etc.," from Old French pacience "patience; sufferance, permission" (12th century) and directly from Latin patientia "the quality of suffering or enduring; submission," also "indulgence, leniency; humility; submissiveness; submission to lust;" literally "quality of suffering." It is an abstract noun formed from the adjective patientem (nominative patiens) "bearing, supporting; suffering, enduring, permitting; tolerant," but also "firm, unyielding, hard," used of persons as well as of navigable rivers, present participle of pati "to endure, undergo, experience," which is of uncertain origin.

Suffering, forbearance, resolve, tolerance, enduring — time appears to be the active agent anchoring all experiences of patience. And here we are on a Wednesday in January, the psychologically longest month of the year.  As philosophers debate the definition, extent, and impact of sentience (responsive to or conscious of sense impressions) in different life forms on the planet, perhaps patience would a excellent measure of sentience. Is patience a virtue, religious pablum, a socially cohesive behavior, a form of lunacy? You decide. Here are some words from persons with opinions on the subject:


Beware the fury of a patient man.

John Dryden

Patience, when too often outraged, is converted to madness.

Publilius Syrus

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

It’s easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

George Eliot, Bartle speaking, in Adam Bede

Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

I worked with patience which means almost power.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Ye have heard of the patience of Job.

The Bible—James 5:11

Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

The Bible, Romans 12–12

Patience is sorrow’s salve; what can’t be cur’d,
…must be endur’d.

Charles Churchill

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

William Shakespeare, the character Nym speaking in Henry V

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

William Shakespeare, the character Iago speaking in Othello

Patience is not about waiting, but how we act when things take longer than we expect.

Paulo Coelho

As the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.

Amanda Cross

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet!

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Only with winter-patience can we bring
The deep-desired, long-awaited spring.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience.

Allan Lokos

Patience and the mulberry leaf become a silk gown.

Chinese proverb

Patience caught the nimble hare.

Greek proverb

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disturbed because of your imperfections, and always rise up bravely from a fall.

St. Francis de Sales

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

Patience makes lighter

What sorrow may not heal.

Horace

Patience is a high virtue.

Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Franklin’s Tale,” in The Canterbury Tales

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine

To know how to wait is the great secret to success.

Joseph de Maistre

Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience is passion tamed.

Lyman Abbott

Patience is the art of hoping.

Luc de Clapiers

Patience is the ability to care slowly.

John Ciardi

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

Leonardo da Vinci

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin, in Poor Richard’s Almanack

There is a point when patience ceases to be a virtue.

Thomas Morton

From A Year with Rilke, January 11 Entry
To Be in Nature Now, from Letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, September 9, 1914

A solitary sojourn in the country is, especially at this moment, only half real, because the sense of harmlessness in being with nature is lost to us. The influence on us of nature’s quiet, insistent presence is, from the start, overwhelmed by our knowledge of the unspeakable human fate that, night and day, irrevocably unfolds.

Island Rügen

by Leonid Pasternak

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.






*There, their, they’re.