My Sentiments Exactly for the A to Z Challenge, a Wordless and Words for Wednesday Post

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

This month, the prompts are being provided by Elephant's Child.    

This week's prompts are:

1. Sunless,
2. Drawn,
3. Forgotten,
4. Brisk,
5. Thousand,
6. Gold, 

And/or

1. Delicate,
2. Walk,
3. Aggressive,
4. Word,
5. Witch,
6. Stop.

Something was wrong with the WITCH of Fairyland.  You could tell because the day was SUNLESS for the third day in a row, meaning she'd FORGOTTEN to make the rain STOP potion.  Rain only on a strict schedule, enough to keep the land green and beautiful but not enough to make everyone depressed with too much of it had become second nature to the residents.

Someone was going to have to get WORD to the Witch that she'd forgotten, and that very fact could backfire.  She hated making mistakes, so the topic had to be broached by someone who was DELICATE in manner.  No need to set her off, she'd possibly get grumpy and AGGRESSIVE, and that wouldn't do.  The last time someone had gotten her that upset, they'd had a whole month of cloudy nights where no one got to see the stars or moon at all and they'd missed a whole month of moon celebrations, and the nightflowers had almost stopped growing completely!

Discussion among the fairy folk finally determined that they would have the gnomes go for Twilla.  Twilla?  Well, she was special.  Twilla was magic, but no one in Fairyland knew exactly what to make of her.  They just knew that when she talked to the Witch, the Witch always laughed and was in a great mood for a long time after.  Twilla, however, never stayed long among the others, and they didn't know what kind of fairy or elf or exactly what Twilla was.  They just knew she had to come.

The gnomes were dispatched, and soon came back.  Twilla was dressed very oddly, totally in GOLD from head to toe.  "I'm making my own sunshine today!" she had called out with a cheery voice when she saw the glum faces that greeted her.  Then she asked, "What's going on today that you need me?"

Everyone began speaking at once, and the din became quite chaotic.  "Wait, wait!" Twilla called out.  "It sounds like the roar of a THOUSAND waters when you all try to tell me at once.  Pick one spokes-fairy."

Muttering and mumbling started, and finally the head wood-elf stepped forward, along with the biggest snowdrop-fairy.  They took turns explaining, and then explained more, and finally Twilla said with a laugh, "Okay, it's enough, I've got the idea.  Yes, I thought my old friend the Witch had run into some trouble when my weather-schedule calendar said 'Sunny' today and it wasn't.  I'll look into it, don't any of you worry.  And all of you go put on some cheerful faces, please, or you will scare the sunshine from coming back!"

Leaving the rest of the fairyland inhabitants to wonder if she meant that, Twilla stepped away.  A quick, BRISK WALK brought her to the Witch's house, and she rapped smartly on the door.  The door magically creaked open slowly, and Twilla stepped in.

The Witch was sitting with her back to the door, looking at plans she had DRAWN spread out on the table before her.  She turned and saw her friend Twilla, and said, "What brings you today" and then yawned.  "Sorry," she explained, "I've been up all night trying to plan this new potion spell combo, and it's missing something, and I am fearfully sleepy."

"You're also fearfully late on the weather for the day," Twilla smiled, and the Witch gasped.  "Oh, crackers!  I've gone and forgotten to warm up the ...  doggone it!  Give me a hand and fetch some firewood.  The little folks will be all het up about it if I don't get this cleared up soon."

"They already are, why do you think I'm here?" Twilla said with a laugh, and fetched the wood and did whatever other assisting the Witch asked of her.  Once the clouds started to break up, Twilla helped herself in the kitchen, brewing and baking and making a nice meal for the two of them.

"How come you don't come visit more often?" the Witch asked as they wound up the conversation that had accompanied their repast.

"Because both of us are solitary homebodies," Twilla smiled at her.  "We are best friends, and we stay that way because we only see each other infrequently enough to stay that way."

"You are most wise," the Witch said, walking Twilla to the door.

"Get some sleep, and I will see you but not too soon," Twilla said.  She danced her way home, past the fairy folk who were so jubilant in the returned sunshine that they simply waved as she went by.

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Today is:

Celtic Tree Month Saille (willow) begins

Day of the Sun -- North Korea (Kim Il Sung's Birthday Holiday)

Fast Food Day -- the first franchised McDonald's opened this day in 1955 in Des Plaines, IL, US

Father Damien Day -- Hawaii, US (Patron of lepers)

Festival of Heru; Festival of Bast -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Festival of Matsu/Mazu -- Southern China and Taiwan (Taoist goddess of the sea who protects fishermen and sailors; often worshiped in sea-faring areas surrounding China as well, although some local dates will vary)

    Ma Zu, Goddess of the Sea’s Birthday -- Buddhism; Taoism

Fluff Appreciation Day -- internet generated; i guess as a distraction for Tax Day

Fordicalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (cow sacrifice to the earth mother, Tellus Mater)

Guangzhou (Canton) Spring Trade Fair -- Guangzhou (Canton), China (a month-long spring trade fair held the same dates each year)

Hillsborough Disaster Memorial -- Anfield at Liverpool, England

Income Tax Pay Day -- Philippines; US

    related observances:

    Freak Out Day 

    National Griper's Day (after all, you have to pay your taxes, and the Titanic sank today*)

    Tax Resistors' Day -- good luck!

    That Sucks Day (appropriate, isn't it)

Please note:  This year, in the US and due to Covid-19, all tax related deadlines have been extended by the IRS to July 15 for all taxpayers!

Jackie Robinson Day -- Major League Baseball

National Glazed Ham Day

Rubber Eraser Day -- today in 1770, Joseph Priestly described a vegetable gum which had the ability to rub out pencil marks

St. Hunna's Day (Patron of laundresses, laundry workers, washerwomen)

Swallow Day -- England (traditional date of the return of chimney swallows)

Take a Wild Guess Day -- sponsored by Jim Barber as a day to honor guesses, hunches, inspirations, speculations and other forms of “intuitive intelligence;” just not on your taxes, please

Tipsa Diena -- Ancient Latvian Calendar (celebration of the start of plowing)

Titanic Remembrance Day

World Creativity and Innovation Week -- always begins on DaVinci's birth anniversary

   World Art Day -- because he was an artist as well as inventor

*If you want to add others reasons why today should be considered "That Sucks Day", please go share your horror story of the day at www.thatsucks.net

Anniversary Today:

Gallaudet University is founded, 1817 (first US public school for the deaf)

Birthdays Today:

Emma Watson, 1990

Ilya Kovalchuck, 1983

Seth Rogen, 1982

Patrick Carney, 1980

Anna Torv, 1978

Emma Thompson, 1959

Evelyn Ashford, 1957

Heloise Cruse Evans, 1951

Amy Wright, 1950

Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, 1947

Claudia Cardinale, 1939

Roy Clark, 1933

Elizabeth Montgomery, 1933

Leon Schotter, 1922

Harold Washington, 1922

Hilda Simms, 1920

Hans Conried, 1917

Bessie Smith, 1894

Thomas Hart Benton, 1889

Sam Rodia, 1875

John Munroe Longyear, 1850

Henry James, 1843

Joseph E. Seagram, 1841

Charles Willson Peale, 1741(O.S. date)

Leonardo da Vinci, 1452

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"In Living Color"(TV), 1990

"Driving Miss Daisy"(Play), 1987

Today in History:

Pope Innocent III refuses to grant permission to the Jews of Cordova, Spain, to build a synagogue, 1250

Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London, 1755

The first school for the deaf in the US opens in Hartford, Connecticut, 1817

The last day US silver coins are allowed to circulate in Canada, 1870

Harley Proctor begins producing Ivory Soap, 1878

General Electric Company is incorporated, 1892

The Titanic sinks, 1912

Insulin becomes available to diabetics, 1923

Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas, 1924

Jackie Robinson debuts with the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1947

White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city, 1957

Tokyo Disney Resort (and the Tokyo Disneyland park) opens in Tokyo Bay (Japan), 1983

Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China, 1989

Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and initiating the World Trade Organization, 1994

Astronomers at San Francisco State University announce the discovery of the first multiplanet solar system besides our own, three planets around Upsilon Andromedaie, 1999

Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads to the closure of airspace over most of Europe, 2010

In a Schrodinger's cat experiment, researchers in Japan and Australia successfully teleport wave packets of light; this is the first transfer of quantum information from one point to another, 2011

Ceremonies and special events marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic are held around the world, 2012

Google publicly offers Google Glass for the first time in a one-day online sale at $1,500 apiece, 2014

Nokia announces that it will purchase Alcatel-Lucent for $16.6 billion, creating the second-largest manufacturer of mobile communication products behind Ericsson, 2015

Paris cathedral Notre Dame catches fire, toppling its spire and destroying its roof, 2019