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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 Elephant's Child.
This week's prompts are:
- Foxglove
- Summer
- Missing
- Event
- South
The prompts will be here this month. An additional prompt from Charlotte (MotherOwl) is to include Water Blue in your creations from the prompts.
She could see it in her mind. Away from the heat of SUMMER in the SOUTH, someplace with mountain meadows and a stream, maybe a small waterfall. A place with flowers in every color of the rainbow from Water Blue to golden yellow to what she always thought of as really red. And purple FOXGLOVE, she loved that one. Someplace where the best EVENT of the day was a quiet, beautiful sunset with a sky painted colors she could only dream about.
Her reverie was broken by a bump, a shout of, "Honey!" and the thumping of several sets of feet on the stairs. The husband, children, and the brother-in-law who seemed to never go home all descended in various states of hungry, howling or in distress or excitement. The only noise MISSING was a dog howl, making her glad they had cats and those made themselves scarce whenever the din started.
She got up from the computer with a sigh. The story she was trying to write would have to wait again, but someday her time would come.
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Today is:
Administrative Professionals Day -- US
Ambivalence Day -- a holiday to tell your friends about, or not
Concord Day -- Niger
Feast of Eros -- Ancient Greek Calendar (date approximate)
Genocide Remembrance Day / Martyrs' Day-- Armenia
International Guide Dog Day
Kapyong Day -- Australia (Battle of Kapyong, 1951)
Loktantra Diwas -- Nepal (Democracy Day, celebrating the restoration of the Nepali Congress on this date in 2006)
Pigs in a Blanket Day
Spring Cat Cleaning Day -- because someone, somewhere, thinks you need to bathe your cat; ask the cat, he will refuse, and if you become insistent, be careful
St. Ives' Day (Patron of St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, England)
St. Mark's Eve*
Walk @ Lunch Day -- founded and encouraged by Blue Cross / Blue Shield
World Day for Animals in Laboratories
*A young lady may eat a boiled dove's egg sprinkled with salt and place
a tulip, sacred to St. Mark, in a vase next to her bed, and so she will
dream of the man she will marry.
Anniversaries Today:
Mary, Queen of Scots marries Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris, 1558
Birthdays Today:
Courtnee Draper, 1985
Kelly Clarkson, 1982
Eric Balfour, 1977
Chipper Jones, 1972
Cedric the Entertainer, 1964
Djimon Hounsou, 1964
Michael O’Keefe, 1955
Eric Bogosian, 1953
Jean-Paul Gaultier, 1952
Doug Clifford, 1945
Barbra Streisand, 1942
Richard M. Daley, 1942
Sue Grafton, 1940
Jill Ireland, 1936
Shirley MacLaine, 1934
Stanley J. Kauffmann, 1916
Robert Penn Warren, 1905
Michael J. Dady, 1850
George N. Bascom, 1836
Anthony Trollope, 1815
Robert Bailey Thomas, 1766
Edmund Cartwright, 1743
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Dancing at Lughnasa"(Play), 1990
"Die Jahreszeiten/The Seasons"(Oratorio, Haydn H 21/3), 1801
The Boston News-Letter(Newspaper), 1704 (first successful newspaper in the British colonies)
Today in History:
Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut, BC1479
Traditional date for the Greeks entering Troy using the Trojan Horse, BC1184
The appearance of Halley's Comet causes monks in England to predict evil happenings, 1066
"La Marseillaise" is composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, 1792
The Boston "News-Letter" becomes the first successful newspaper in the colonies, 1704
The Library of Congress is established, 1800
A patent is granted for the first soda fountain, 1833
William Price of the Washington Star becomes the first reporter to be specifically assigned to the White House, 1897
The fathometer, which measures underwater depth, is patented, 1928
Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, 1953
Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1, the first person to die during a space mission, 1967
Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations, 1968
The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched, 1970
Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine, 1990
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI, 2005
Snuppy, the world's first cloned dog is born in South Korea, 2005
Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime, 2007
Scientists in Kamchatka, Russia, report sighting the first adult white orca to be seen in the wild, 2012
Suffragist Millicent Fawcett is the first woman to have a statue erected in Parliament Square, London, England, 2018
According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, streaming music services overtake worldwide sales of CDs and vinyl for the first time, 2018
India surpasses China as the worlds most populous country according to UN estimates, 2023