Lead Me On Word of the Day: lodestar
Whether you use this spelling or the now accepted loadstar, you’ll always be behind this word because it designates something that you follow. It’s literally a star (such as the North Star) that serves as a guide, and figuratively, a person or thing that serves as a model or inspiration. The lode bit is from an Old English word for “course.”
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Excerpt from book: ”When the Night Falls”
On Being Alone
Being the surface gregarious person
That I always thought I was
Makes it difficult to recognize,
I really am – quite alone.
For years I lived with someone
Who slept with me each night?
A farce was played upon us both
Illusion – that we were one.
Conversations in my head
Have become the normal tract
I could ask and answer questions
Safety in the silence bred.
Now there’s someone else who talks
Ah, it’s Always about himself
Rarely listening to ME talk
My thoughts cause him to walk.
I now hoard my thoughts like loot
Seems, they are Stolen from the world
Speaking less and less each day
Soon I will be mute….
©g.abbey, 2011
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Feel the Love Word of the Day: Today, Maundy Thursday, is the day for all things Maundy, including Maundy money. It’s a special kind of money distributed by the British sovereign today, in a ceremony that is 350 years old. The word Maundy, which goes into retirement the other 364 days of the year, is from Latin mandatum, “command,” and is related to mandate. It designates the day owing to the command of Jesus in John 13:34: “Love one another.”
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That Sinking Feeling Word of the Day: submerge
One hundred years ago today, two boats sank. This rather spoiled the “Boat Race” between rowers from Oxford and Cambridge Universities on the Thames, since they were the only competitors in this annual contest. In honor thereof, we salute submerge, a 17th-century verb formed predictably from Latin components: sub- meaning “under” and mergere meaning plunge. From this literal meaning has developed the figurative sense of “make obscure or subordinate.”
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