What’s Coming this Week
Memorial Day
We saw you, America.
In Belleau Wood and Bastogne, at Normandy and Guadalcanal, from Chosin to Kandahar, they did what was asked of them. Wherever they fell, they did what was asked of them.
We know. We knew them.
We see you honor them.We see you, America. pic.twitter.com/K1NQdWgpqN
— Canadian Forces in 🇺🇸 (@CAFinUS) May 28, 2022
Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2022 May 28
Music of the Week
Posted: 2022 May 28
Words of the Week
“To do nothing is in everyone’s power.” - Samuel Johnson
Source: John Robson's Words Worth NotingPosted: 2022 May 28
Tweet of the Week
28 May 1941 | In the evening a transport of 304 Poles deported by Germans from #Warsaw arrived at #Auschwitz. Among them were 12 priests, including a Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe (no. 16670) who on 29 July 1941 offered his life to save a prisoner selected for starvation death. pic.twitter.com/1cCd9ae0kq
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) May 28, 2022
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Tag Archives: Word Play
Hold My Beer and Farewell Best Beloved
History in the making. Continue reading
Foot / Shape
Today the foot. Tomorrow the world. Continue reading
The Answer
Audrey Hepburn and Bruce Lee. Continue reading
Long, Longer, Longest
Another way to look at place names. Continue reading
What’s in a Place Name?
Genesis 2:20 – “The man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field….” I think we’ve exceeded the initial scope of work. Continue reading
Look Again
Three bridges and a snowy egret along a body of water. And a fine point of grammar, specified if not clarified. Continue reading
Sprezzatura
Language fun. Yes, really. Continue reading
Whom dat?
Who dat who say or write whom? Continue reading
Heater Face: Office-Alone Variant
As I wait for inexplicably late printing (because COVID, I presume), I see a heater face way behind the counter to join the one in the banner. This one evokes the Home Alone face, which makes me wonder . . … Continue reading
