Mobile Hero Chief Slacabamarinico (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday.

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Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and has become a moveable feast of word or picture or music prompts that encourages us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy.    

This month, the prompts are being provided by Lee at Kitchen Connection.   

This week’s “Words for Wednesday” are the words listed below:

Stellar

Resourceful

Frivolous

Revelation

Catastrophe

Perspective

AND/OR

Potential

Embodiment

Euphoria

Jeopardise

Unite

Groundswell

"Just what in the h-e-double-hockey-sticks did you think you were doing!"

Kylie knew her friend and business partner didn't want an answer yet.  She had a reason, but Jaime needed to let off some steam before she would be able to see what had been done from another PERSPECTIVE.

"This could be a CATASTROPHE!" Jaime continued.  "We have a STELLAR product, we've been RESOURCEFUL in getting it almost to market, and there is the POTENTIAL that this could make us both very rich.  Then you go and JEOPARDISE the whole thing with a FRIVOLOUS conversation!"

"I think you are overstating it a bit, aren't you?" Kylie finally decided to speak up, hoping to speed up the defusing process.  This was typical in their friendship and partnership, Jaime usually calmed down a bit faster if Kylie started to push back at the five minute mark.

Not this time, though.

"Overstating!  No, I don't think I am overstating!  What did you think your untimely revealing of our launch was going to do, UNITE everyone in a GROUNDSWELL of support?   Draw everyone to our side?"  

Jaime continued in this vein for about five more minutes when Kylie decided she'd had enough.  Every once in a while, she had to cut in and shut her friend down, and this time, she had a good reason to do just that.

It was time for her REVELATION. so Kylie interrupted with a shout, "Actually, everyone is on our side now, if you would calm down enough to listen!"

On the rare occasion that Kylie shouted, Jaime was usually shocked enough to listen.

Kylie then gave a detailed account of the whole situation, her conversations, the reactions, and how she had poised them for even more success than either of them had envisioned.

Jaime, true to her nature, went from being the EMBODIMENT of anger to EUPHORIA in about half the time it took Kylie to tell her the whole thing.

Finally, Jaime caught Kylie up and swung her around, laughing and whooping.

"My friend," she said, "thank you for sticking with me, no matter how crazy I get!  You let me rant even when you know you are right!"

"You're welcome," Kylie said with a grin.  "It's worth it, especially when I get to have the last laugh!"

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Today is:

American Eagle Day    

Cuckoo Warning Day -- if you hear the cuckoo today, it will be a wet summer, according to old European traditions

Day of the National Flag -- Argentina (Anniversary of General D. Manuel Belgrano's Death)

Day of the Purification of All Things -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Feast of the Great Spirit / Great Mystery -- various Native Americans (celebrations are around the time of the solstice)

    Cherokee call the spirit Asgaya Galun Lati

    Iroquois call the spirit Orenda

    Lakota call the spirit Wakan Tanka

    Zuni call the spirit Awonawilona

Festival for Summanus -- Ancient Roman Calendar (the god who threw thunderbolts at night)

Festival of the New Knee -- Fairy Calendar

Hogueras de San Juan -- Alicante, Spain ("Bonfires of St. John," through the 29th, with the night of the 24th being the most magical as the festival is for St. John, whose day that is)

Ice Cream Soda Day -- i guess because it's hot enough now for one

International Surfing Day -- The Surfrider Foundation and Surfing Magazine suggest contests, barbecues, film screenings, and organizing beach clean ups to celebrate 

Iron Skegge's Day -- Vikings (martyrdom of Iron Skegge, who died defending the temples of Maeri against Christians)

Martyr's Day -- Eritrea

Midsummer's Eve -- many and varying traditions, with some celebrating the day before the solstice, and some always tying it to June 23, St. John's Eve

    Night of the Fairy Goddesses Aine and Finnen -- Ireland (watch out for the antics of the little people on Midsummer's Eve, whichever day you celebrate it!)

National Vanilla Milkshake Day

New Identity Day -- an internet generated holiday, just have fun thinking about who you might want to be for a day

Scira/Skirophoria -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival for Demeter, organized by the women of Athens; date approximate)

Sonoma-Marin Fair and World’s Ugliest Dog Contest® -- Petaluma, CA, US (livestock exhibitions, wine gardens, demolition derby, Ugly Dog Contest, and more; through Sunday)

St. Michelina of Pesaro's Day (Patron of mentally ill people, people with in-law problems, widows; against death of children, insanity and mental illness)

Takekiri Eshiki Matsuri -- Kuramadera, Kyoto, Japan (bamboo cutting festival; the bamboo represents snakes, so cutting it symbolizes victory over evil)

World Productivity Day -- no central focus, just a day for suppliers of productivity tools and training to celebrate what they contribute to society

World Refugee Day -- UN

Anniversaries Today:

The University of Oxford receives its charter, 1214

West Virginia becomes the 35th US state, 1863

Birthdays Today:

Robert Rodriguez, 1968

Nicole Kidman, 1967

Michael Landon, Jr, 1964

Cyndi Lauper, 1953

John Goodman, 1952

Lionel Richie, 1949

Andre Watts, 1946

Bob Vila, 1946

Anne Murray, 1945

Brian Wilson, 1942

John Mahoney, 1940

Danny Aiello, 1933

James Tolkan, 1931

Martin Landau, 1931

Olympia Dukakis, 1931

Chet Atkins, 1924

Audie Murphy, 1924

Jean-Jacques Bertrand, 1916

Errol Flynn, 1909

Lillian Hellman, 1905

Charles W. Chesnutt, 1858

Scipio Africanus, BC236

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Jaws(Film), 1975

"The Ray Stevens Show"(TV), 1970

"The Ed Sullivan Show"(TV), 1948

Today in History:

Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun; the battle was inconclusive, and Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory, 451

Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique, 1567

The Irish  village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian  pirates, 1631

A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta, 1756

King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during The French Revolution, 1791

The U.S. vessel SS Savannah, the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, arrives at Liverpool, 1819

Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne, 1837

Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph, 1840 

Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1877

Caroline Willard Baldwin becomes the first woman to earn a doctor of science degree, at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1895

A rare June hurricane struck Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35, 1959

The so-called "red telephone" is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1963

The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin, 1991

The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida, 2003

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers grants private companies the right to create new website domain suffixes, 2011

Instagram offers users the ability to upload videos to their service, 2013

Dunedin and Christchurch, New Zealand, have roads cut off and flights cancelled due to adverse weather conditions, 2013