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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday, BeThere2Day, 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 to encourage us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy.
The prompts will be posted by Elephant's Child this month and are provided by Sean Jeating.
This week's prompts are:
- consider,
- rather,
- superstitious,
- paraskevidekatriaphobia,
- table
and/or
- bigots,
- different,
- gender,
- hyperbolise,
- teeth,
Charlotte (MotherOwl) has given us Pebble Grey as the colour of the month. If you can also incorporate it into your stories she (and I) will be grateful.
"PARASKEVIDEKATRIAPHOBIA, friggatriskaidekaphobioa, triskaidekaphobia, HYPERBOLISE, transubstantiationalist, supercalifradulisticexpialicodious..."
"What are you doing, child-o-mine?"
"Practicing big words because they sound funny. And besides, Laney said she'd be ready to play with me by the time I finished learning them."
Trish, often called "kidlet" by her big sister, was holding a paper with all these long words written out very carefully, which she showed her dad.
"I needed time to work on my report and I couldn't send her outside to do something like pick a bouquet for the table, not with those Pebble Grey skies looking like they're ready to let go any moment" Laney said, coming into the room. "I've decided to CONSIDER the RATHER SUPERSTITIOUS beliefs behind what makes people BIGOTS, whether against those who are of DIFFERENT races or of a different GENDER."
"That's quite a big project," dad mused.
"It's my Senior Thesis and I wanted to do something I hadn't seen done before, and I don't expect it to cover every aspect, just a few of the more prominent ones we see in early US history."
"Good for you."
"But I've had enough of studying for the moment. C'mon, kidlet, lets go to the kitchen TABLE and play a game while we wait to get our TEETH into whatever's bubbling on the stove right now."
"It's my famous beef and barley stew with my five-grain bread," dad said, "and I need to go give the stew a stir and see if the bread's ready to come out of the oven and cool. We'll all play until supper's done."
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Today is National Feral Cat Day in the US. It is sponsored by Alley Cat Allies.
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Today is:
Boss's Day -- either celebrate, or roll your eyes, both are acceptable responses (begun by Patricia Bays Haroski in 1958 in honor of her boss, who was also her father; this date was his birthday)
Chrysanthemum Festival -- Japan ("The Festival of Happiness", various shrines; through Nov. 15)
Clean Your Bug Zapper Day -- internet generated, and we're getting a bit overboard here, aren't we?
Day of National Concern About Young People and Gun Violence -- US (students around the nation are asked to sign the Pledge Against Gun Violence)
Day of Pope John Paul II -- Poland
Dictionary Day / Learn a Word Day -- Noah Webster's birth anniversary
Dress Like A Dork Day -- does someone have it out for us with these?
Elephantine Festival -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (several such celebrations of elephants were held around this time of year in Egypt)
Ether Day (first demonstrated use, see History)
Feast of 'Ilm (Knowledge) -- Baha'i
Hagfish Day -- a day to celebrate the uniqueness and necessity of even the ugliest of sea creatures, like the hagfish
National Fossil Day -- US (National Park Service information)
National Liqueur Day
National Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce Day -- US
National Take Your Parents To Lunch Day -- US (sponsored by Kiwi Magazine, encouraging parents to go to school and have lunch with the children, learning what goes into a healthy lunch)
Niihama Drum Festival -- Niihama, Japan (three day festival with two ton drum floats)
Sennin Musha Gyoretsu -- Tochigi, Japan (procession of 1,000 warriors; through tomorrow)
St. Hedwig's Day (Patron of brides, duchesses, difficult marriages, widows; Bavaria; Berlin, Germany; Gorlitz, Germany; Silesia; against the death of children, jealousy)
Teachers' Day -- Chile
World Food Day -- UN
Anniversaries Today:
The first birth control clinic in the US is opened, 1916
Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah, 1875
Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women, 1869
Zion's Co-Operative Mercantile Institution, America's first department store, opens, 1868
The Collegiate School is established(forerunner of Yale University), 1701, Old Style Date
Birthdays Today:
John Mayer, 1977
Kellie Martin, 1975
Flea, 1962
Tim Robbins, 1958
Melissa Louise Belote, 1956
Barry Corbin, 1940
Bob Weir, 1947
Suzanne Somers, 1946
Gunter Grass, 1927
Angela Lansbury, 1925
William Orville Douglas, 1898
Eugene O'Neill, 1888
David Ben-Gurion, 1886
Oscar Wilde, 1854
Noah Webster, 1758
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"The Red Mill"(Musical), 1945
"The Man Who Came too Dinner"(Play), 1939
"Billy the Kid"(Ballet), 1938
Jane Eyre(Publication date), 1847
Today in History:
Jadwiga (yes, a she) is crowned King of Poland, 1384
Olivier van Noorts' ships reach the Philippines, 1600
George Washington takes Yorktown, 1781
Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, is guillotined, 1793
Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers, 1843
Dentist William T. Morton demonstrates the effectiveness of ether, 1846
Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" is published, 1847
John Brown leads a raid on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, 1859
The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered", 1869
John Harwood takes out a patent on a self-winding watch, 1923
The Disney Company is founded, 1923
Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army, 1940
Fidel Castro is sentenced in Havana to 15 years in prison, 1953
The People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon, 1964
In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act, 1970
Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1973
Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave, 1978
Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, 1978
Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders, 1986
Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated, 2002
A 1,255lb. portion of the Chelyabinsk meteor is recovered by divers in Russia, 2013
New Zealand, Malaysia, Angola, Spain and Venezuela are elected to the United Nations Security Council, 2014
Ed Whitlock, 85, becomes the oldest person to ever finish a marathon in under 4 hours, completing the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 3 hours 56 minutes, 2016
In an experiment on microbial fuel cells, Pete the Fern at the London Zoo becomes the first plant to take a selfie, 2019
Egyptian archaeologists announce the discovery of more than 20 painted wooden coffins from the Theban necropolis of Asasif, 2019
NASA launches the Lucy probe on a 12-year, four-billion-mile trek to explore 8 of the so-called Trojan asteroids, 2021
The Amazon River's largest tributary, the Negro River, falls to its lowest level ever confirming the rain forest is enduring a significant drought, 2023
Someone has eaten a lot of pizza's lol :-)
ReplyDeleteHave a pizzatastic week and thanks for linking p mimi 👍
It is good to learn big words, but also important to know their meaning. As a child I used to devour the dictionary and it has always stood me in good stead. I have to admit that as I get older I sometimes have to check I have the right word or meaning. I always am right, but it doesn't hurt to check if you have any doubts.
ReplyDeleteGod bless always, Mimi.
ReplyDeleteI just love your small every day stories. They are as healthy and wholesone as beef and barley stew.
ReplyDeleteThat's one huge gumball machine. Lots of money I'll bet.
ReplyDeleteLove your use of the prompts. What a heartwarming take.
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Have a fabulous Wordless Wednesday. Love and hugs. ♥
• bigots,
ReplyDelete• different,
• gender,
• hyperbolise,
• teeth,
My mama taught me that bigots are grey, colorless, have only one hue mostly tinted by prejudice and fear, but we were always different and did not separate humans by gender or race or color. Bigots hyperbolize differences they imagine that should be feared, often based on false information, emotional unacceptance of “other”, disdain for education, hard work, risk, you name it. Fear is always the basis, mama said, and if bigots could just open ttheir eyes and hearts and minds and let go of suspicion that they take in their teeth like a dog’s bone, they might fine that they have more in common with their fellow humans that they imagine. Bigotry is a disease, said mama, for which only the only cure is love.
I haven't seen a gumball machine is a good while. That was a darn good story too! We sure love our ferals, they are family.
ReplyDeletewow! amazing size of that gumball machine ~ great story too ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Nice gumball machine. Great story, but now I am craving that soup. XO
ReplyDeleteGood use for the gumball machine money. We have a piggy bank here that Dad and Mom use to hold all their loose change. Every now and then Mom takes it to the bank and turn it into green papers. She is always amazed at how much it adds up to. It is often used for a special dinner night out.
ReplyDeleteWoos - Misty and Timber