Posted September 20, 2019
It's The Journey That Counts!
Life's journey is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "Wow! What a ride!"
Weekly Anna-Gram
● This coming week is my grand-daughter’s birthday
   ♫ Happy Birthday to you♪
       Happy Birthday to you ♪
       Happy Birthday dear Sophia 
  … Happy Birthday to you ♪ ♫
Weekly Anagrams
● The Noble Pachyderm =
    Ho, celebrated nymph.
● Acorn Computers = Crap on
   Customer
Weekly Quotes
“They, who have suffered so much at the hands of humans, never lose the ability to forgive, even though, being elephants, they will never be able to forget.”
― Dr. Daphne Sheldrick, An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants
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New Dictionary Words as of June 2019
● boertjie = a depreciative term for an Afrikaner. Also as a playful or affectionate mode of address.
● bogging = filthy, smelly; disgusting. Also: inferior, rubbish.”
● schaltzfest = an occasion of unrestrained sentimentality or emotional outpouring; esp. a sentimental or mawkish film, novel, song, etc.
● yerveroushead = “desire, eagerness.
● John Long = the name of (the type of) an untrustworthy messenger whose messages are never delivered or take an inordinately long time.
 
Source: Oxford English Dictionary – New Words List June 2019
https://public.oed.com/updates/new-words-list-june-2019/
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 Observance Days 
September 22 is National Elephant Appreciation Day
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Don't forget to kiss your  pachyderm! 
​​September Is:
● National Home Furnishings Month
● National Infant Mortality Awareness
   Month Link
● National ITP Awareness Month Link
● National Pet Memorial Month Link
● Self Improvement Month Link
This Coming Week is:
● Prostate Cancer Awareness Week: 20-26
● National Clean Hands Week: 20-26 
● National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health
   Week: 20-26 
● National Indoor Plant Week: 20-26
● National Home Furnishings Month
● National Infant Mortality Awareness
   Month Link
● National ITP Awareness Month Link
● National Pet Memorial Month Link
● Self Improvement Month Link
● National Rehabilitation Awareness Week
● National Singles Week: 20-26
● National Dog Week: 20-26  Link   Link 
● National Historically Black Colleges &
   Universities Week: 20-26
● National Keep Kids Creative Week
● Register to Vote Week: 20-26
● Sea Otter Awareness Week: 20-26
● Tolkien Week: 20-26 
Tolkien Week is observed in week containing September 22, which is Hobbit Day, both in honor of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (b. 1892, South Africa—d. 1973), an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
Both celebrations began in 1978.  Hobbit Day in particular, and Tolkien Week as well, have gained some measure of legal dignity through a variety of proclamations, declarations, tributes and similar governmental documents prepared by elected officials who support the Society, its goals and the observance of these holidays.
​September 20 is:
● Puppy Mill Awareness Day Link
● Nickelodeon's Worldwide Day of Play
● Wife Appreciation Day