Wednesday, January 2, 2019

After All, It's Still the 12 Days of Christmas (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday and Sandee at Comedy Plus.     





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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 lissa at The Memory of Rain.

This week's prompts are:
1. beginning
2. new year
3. wonder
4. ritual
5. kiss
6. faith

And/or
1. seven
2. remember
3. adventure
4. miles
5. 88
6. heart


“Only 88 minutes to go!”

She yawned and responded, “Reminds of the line in the Frost poem, “MILES to go before I sleep.”

“Well, you can’t go to sleep before midnight, we have to start the NEW YEAR with a KISS!” he said.

“Is a RITUAL kiss still a kiss?” she asked.

“Kissing you is never a ritual and always an ADVENTURE” he answered with a smile.

“Our first kiss certainly was!” she exclaimed.

“I had to take you on SEVEN dates to get to that point!"

"I REMEMBER.  And at the time I had to WONDER why you kept asking me out, and why I kept agreeing to go out again."

"I kept asking because I had FAITH that it would work out.  After all, you'd already won my HEART."

"Well, you won mine when I fell while we were hiking and you caught me, and I was so glad not to be plummeting down the hillside that I kissed you."

"It was a great BEGINNING, wasn't it?"

"And it's been a great continuing, I just wish it wasn't so long until midnight."


"Well, we could start early.  After all, it's midnight somewhere!"




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Today is:

Advent of Inanna -- Ancient Sumerian Calendar (date approximate; equivalent to Ishtar, Assur, Astarte, Isis, and others; a female warrior and fertility goddess)

Berchtoldstag -- Alsace; Liechtenstein; Switzerland (a celebration of the goddess Perchta, or Bertha, guardian of animals and member of the Wild Hunt) related observance
    St. Berchtolds' Day -- Liechtenstein Bank Holiday; Switzerland Regional Holiday (because of the close association of his name with Perchta,  Duke Berchtold V of Zähringen's founding of Bern, Switzerland, is commemorated today; while not an official saint of any church, his day has become a big festival for children)

Blacks and Whites Carnival -- Colombia (through the 7th; manic and messy tradition, includes people painting themselves black one day, white the next, with a Grand Parade at some point during the week)

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Day -- The Andrews Sisters recorded the song this day in 1941 (yes, before the US entered the war; it was for the movie "Buck Private" with Abbot and Costello)

Carnival Day/Last Lap -- Saint Kitts and Nevis

Dainichi-do Bugaku -- Kazuno, Japan (11 traditional bugaku dances at the shrine; dates back as far as 718)

Festival of Sleep Day -- begins this evening; celebrate by sleeping in tomorrow because it is assumed we could all use some extra z's after the holidays

Genshi-sai (First Beginning Ceremony) -- Imperial Palace and various shrines, Japan (a dance and musical art performed to round out the New Year's celebration)

Happy Mew Year for Cats Day -- because felines must have a day to celebrate the New Year, and they cannot share; sponsored on behalf of felines everywhere by Wellcat Holidays

Jour des Aieux -- Haiti (Founder's Day, sometimes translated Ancestry Day)

Kaapse Klopse -- Cape Town, South Africa (Minstrel Carnival; through January and most of February, but the main parade is today)

Kakizome -- Japan ("first writing", a day to do the first calligraphy written at the beginning of the New Year; often a resolution or poetry asking for a good year)

National Cream Puff Day

National Motivation and Inspiration Day -- US

National Science Fiction Day -- Asimov's birth anniversary

Ninth Day of Christmas

Nyilo -- Bhutan (Winter Solstice)

Positive Postcard Day -- some people now say you should fight the post-holiday let-down by sending someone an uplifting postcard; the original project said to send positive postcards to yourself, with instructions here     

Run It Up the Flagpole and See if Anyone Salutes It Day -- try something new today, in the spirit of the new year

Second Day of New Year -- also a holiday in many countries

"Someday We'll Laugh About This" Week begins -- to remind us to keep our perspective; sponsored by The Humor Project

St. Adelard's Day (Patron of gardeners; against fever, typhoid)

St. Basil's Day/Basil the Great -- Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches (yes, the Eastern Churches celebrated him yesterday; Patron of hospital administrators, reformers; Cappadocia; Russia)

St. Macarius' Day (Patron of of confectioners, cooks, pastry chefs)

Takai Commision Holiday -- Niue


Anniversaries Today:

Georgia becomes the 4th US State, 1788


Birthdays Today:

Kate Bosworth, 1983
Taye Diggs, 1972
Christy Turlington, 1969
Cuba Gooding, Jr. 1968
Tia Carrera, 1967
Gabrielle Carteris, 1961
Alan Beckwith, 1952
Wendy Phillips, 1952
Christopher Durang, 1949
Dennis Hastert, 1942
Jim Bakker, 1939
Roger Miller, 1936
Isaac Asimov, 1920
Sally Rand, 1904
Barry Goldwater, 1902
Martha Carey Thomas, 1857
James Wolfe, 1727


Today in History:

The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire, 366
Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names, 1235
Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day), 1492
The first American revolutionary flag is displayed, 1776
The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded, 1881
"The Liberator", and abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston, 1831
The British reestablish rule in the Falklands, 1833
The first US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania, 1842
Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust, 1882
Alice Sanger becomes the first female White House staffer, 1890
A record 19'2" alligator is shot in Louisiana by E. A. McIlhenny, 1890
Pres. T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black, 1903
The American anarcho-syndicalist union known as the Industrial Workers of the World forms, 1905
The Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa, 1908
Lithuania gains independence, 1919
The US & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls, 1929
Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the U.S.S.R., 1959
Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth, 2004
Mauritius bans the use of plastic bags, 2013

17 comments:

  1. Love that towel - and hope that lissa provides the prompts soon.

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  2. Happy Mew Year - love that holiday!

    That's an adorable towel. I've always liked dishtowels. They make great gifts and souvenirs.

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  3. Seven crawfish boiling...yum! Happy New year!

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  4. I like that towel! Happy New Year!

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  5. I love that towel. I also like how you do your 12 days of Christmas.

    Thanks for joining the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop.

    Have a fabulous WW, my friend. ♥

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  6. What a very clever towel--makes much more sense than that partridge and the pear tree.

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  7. Happy New Year from Poland. Lovely post.

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  8. I have a sister who lives in the deep south, and she sent me a copy of that version of the 12 Days in a Christmas card. Happy New Year to you.

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  9. I like your words for wednesday story - seven dates to a kiss - sounds good.

    good take on the prompts. happy new year!

    & have a lovely day.

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  10. I love your story! I like the reminder that it's midnight somewhere, just like it's ice cream o'clock somewhere.
    I also really like the 12 days of Christmas in Louisiana towel :)

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  11. A cup of chicory and a beinet sounds pretty good about now!

    Thanks for sharing!!

    - Lisa

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  12. That is a sweet story. I like that version of the song too :)

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  13. I came back to read your W4W, and am smiling all over my sentimental face. Thank you.

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  14. That bag with all the Louisiana goodies is making my taste buds jump! Fond memories ^_^

    Happy Day to you,
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  15. Always midnigth somewhere ... a new take on our time zone troubles with when it's Wednesday ;) It was such a sweet story. Thank you for some lasting love.

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  16. Aha! You used the words so well, messymimi!!

    May 2019 be the best year you've ever had! All the best to you and yours. :)

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