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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.
This month, the prompts are being provided by Sandi and are being posted by Elephant's Child.
This week's prompts are:
- Hope
- Joie de vivre
- Devotion
- Forgiveness
- Rescue
And/or
- Brioche
- Pie
- Pi
- Duty
- Honor
And/or
Elephant's Child, our beloved coordinator, is adding a further challenge to the mix. Charlotte(MotherOwl) has assigned a colour to each month of the year. This month it is pine green and if you can include it in your Words for Wednesday contribution each week in January she and EC would be very grateful.
The family reunion was in full swing and Aunt Marigold was in high cotton. Each part of the family had a day to cook for the whole group, and Aunt Marigold was wandering in and out of the kitchen at various times, oblivious to what that part of the family had planned for the menu of the day, "concocting delights," as she liked to say.
They'd made it work, of course, even when she made a BRIOCHE on Tex-Mex night and served them her famous deviled eggs as an appetizer for the Italian supper. Aunt Marigold's DEVOTION to her family made FORGIVENESS their default attitude toward her no matter how outlandish she could sometimes be. Her JOIE DE VIVRE and the HOPE with which she faced everything made her beloved of all.
When June wandered into the kitchen, then, she wasn't surprised to see Aunt Marigold in her PINE GREEN muumuu putting the finishing touches on a PIE. She was humming along as Moonlight Sonata played softly from the speaker tucked in the corner of the kitchen counter.
"What are you baking for us this time, Aunt Marigold?" June asked brightly, watching as the woman expertly rolled the crust scraps and shaped them into the PI symbol, laying them on the top crust as a finishing touch.
"Apple! Nothing like a good deep dish apple pie to go with whatever meal it is you and Alan have planned for the family tonight. I've got the first one baking already, you know we're going to need two with this crew," Aunt Marigold said.
"With some of them, we might need three," June mischievously smiled.
"Ain't it the truth!" Aunt Marigold responded.
"Did I hear apple pie?" Alan asked, walking in. "Oh, good! We're making an old-fashioned pot roast supper tonight, this will top it off perfectly."
"Mmmm, a pot roast. I remember you made one the first time I visited you, June. It was a delight. Now Alan," Aunt Marigold turned to him solemnly. "I'm putting you on guard DUTY. Once these pies are done, you know those rascals are going to want to sneak some. We can't keep those young ones full. You're going to have to RESCUE our dessert by protecting these, got it?"
Alan snapped to attention. "It will be an HONOR to protect your pies from all comers!" he said with a salute, and the three of them shared a long laugh.
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Today is:
Day of the Fallen against the Colonial Repression -- Angola
Day To Mourn Racism -- anniversary of the day ethnic discrimination was outlawed worldwide in 1969
Dimpled Chad Day -- if you have to ask, you wouldn't understand; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays
Earth at Perihelion -- 4:17pm UTC (closest point to the Sun)
Eleventh Day of Christmas
Feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (1st US-born Saint; Patron of Apostleship of the Sea, people ridiculed for their piety, widows; Shreveport, LA; against in-law problems, the death of children, the death of parents)
Festival of Fufluns -- Etruscan (god of wine, also of spring and rebirth; date approximate)
Get Out Your Boxer Shorts Day -- internet generated, and why, i do not know
Independence Day -- Myanmar(1948)
Martyrs' Day -- Democratic Republic of the Congo
National Spaghetti Day
Ogoni Day -- Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People of the Niger River
Pop Music Chart Day -- Billboard magazine published the first one today in 1936
St. Pharaildis' Day (Patron of difficult marriages, victims of abuse, widows; Bruay, France; Ghent, Belgium; against childhood diseases)
Trivia Day -- celebration of those who have a doctorate in uselessology, sponsored by PunsCorp
World Braille Day -- birth anniversary of Louis Braille
World Hypnotism Day -- to remove myth and misconception, and promote the truths and benefits of hypnotism
Anniversaries Today:
Utah becomes the 45th US state, 1896
Birthdays Today:
Julia Ormond, 1965
Dave Roley, 1962
Michael Stipe, 1960
Matt Frewer, 1958
Ann Magnuson, 1956
Grace Bumbry, 1937
Dyan Cannon, 1937
Floyd Patterson, 1935
Don Shula, 1930
Barbara Rush, 1927
Jesse White, 1917
Jane Wyman, 1914
Sterling Holloway, 1905
Charles "Tom Thumb" Stratton, 1838
Louis Braille, 1809
Jakob Grimm, 1785
Benjamin Rush, 1746
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Night Court"(TV), 1984
"Blondie"(TV), 1957
The Pop Music Charts in Billboard Magazine, 1936
"Academic Festival Overture"(Johannes Brahms Op. 80), 1881
Today in History:
Titus Labienus is defeated by Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina, BC 46
Columbus leaves the "New World" on return from his first voyage, 1493
Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician, Joost Sweiter, "because he is a Jew", 1570
Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London, the main residence of the English monarchs, is destroyed by fire, 1698
Andre Méchain discovers M80, the globular cluster in Scorpio, 1781
Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government, 1847
4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY, 1863
The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York City, 1865
Sofia is emancipated from Ottoman rule, 1878
The last known sighting of an eastern cougar, in Ontario, 1884
Dr W W Grant of Iowa, performs the first appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22), 1885
Thomas Stevens is the first man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF); his itinerary accounts "DISTANCE ACTUALLY WHEELED, ABOUT 13,500 MILES", 1887
The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal Charter, 1912
The first elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho, 1915
Sputnik 1 reenters the atmosphere and burns up, 1958
Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon, 1959
Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, 1972
Elizabeth Ann Seton becomes the first American-born saint, 1975
Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC, 2004
The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history, 2007
The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building is officially opened, 2010
Eleven-year-old Kathryn Gray, of Canada, becomes the youngest person in the world to discover a supernova, 2011
The world's largest ever blue star sapphire at 1404.49 carats, found in a Sri Lankan mine in August 2015, is finally certified by Colombo's Gemology Institute, 2016
South Korea, the country with world's lowest birth rate, records more deaths than births for the first time, 2021