Posted
​ March 4, 2023

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!"

Anna-grams 
​▼ Happy Birthday to my granddaughter Daniela - 03/13

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▲ Happy Birthday to Great Grandson James - 03/31

● Happy Birthday to Maria Reynolds - 03/22
● Happy Birthday to Elizabeth Wickham - 03/03
● Happy Birthday to Stephanee Ryle - 03/10
● Happy Birthday to Lynn Miller - 03/15
● Happy Birthday to Marie Lucero = 03/20
● Happy Birthday to Robert Wickham - 03/25
●  Currently Reading 
Title: Book of Lost Friends
Author:  Lisa Wingate

Anagrams 
● Feast Day of Saint Patrick: March Seventeenth = Apt event affects Irish: need a natty shamrock.
~ Segura  (2000)

● Scotland = Old cants
~ Aronas Pinchas (2006)

● The Scottish Parliament = Ah! Potent thistle racism.
~ Mick Tully (2005)

● Saint Patrick's Day = I say! Dark pints act!
- Mick Tully (2007)
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Old Irish Sayings
● May the road rise up to meet you.

● A best friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.

●May your home always be too small to hold all your friends.

● You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

● Who keeps his tongue keeps his friends.

● Every man is sociable until a cow invades his garden.

● May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.

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Weekly Literary Term
That You  May Never Need To Know
I'm not writing this any more undless there is a demand for it L.O.L. 
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Granny Mythbuster Rides Again 
Commonly Believed Myths that Aren’t True

Sometimes it can be hard to separate fact from fiction, especially when so many of the "facts" we've spent our whole lives believing are actually enduring myths and misconceptions. For Example:
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Myth:  We only use 10 percent of our brains

Neurologist Barry Gordon told Scientific American that humans "use virtually every part of the brain" and most of the brain is "active almost all the time."

​Observation Days
March is:
● Women's History Month
● Irish-American Heritage Mo. 
● Mad for Plaid Month
● Listening Awareness Month
● National Peanut Month
● National Reading Month
● National Umbrella Month
● Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month
● National Crochet Month
● National Deaf History Month
● National Flour Month
● Music Therapy Awareness Month
● Multiple Sclerosis Education and Awareness Month

Weekly Oservations:
● Chocolate Chip Cookie Week (5-11)
● Scout Week (5-11)
● National Aardvark Week
5-11)
● Women in Construction Week (5-11)
● Sea Week (5-13)
● National Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week (12-18)
● Patient Safety Awareness Week (12-18)
● Brain Awareness Week
(13-19)
● National Sleep Awareness Week (14-20)
● American Chocolate Week (19 to 25)
● National Anonymous Giving Week (19-25)
● National Introverts Week
(20-26)
● National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week (22-28)
● National Tsunami Awareness Week (24-30)

New Dictionary Words in 2022-23 
Food
● goetta (n) = meat (such as pork) mixed with oats, onions, and spices and fried in the form of a patty.

Pop Culture
● otaku (n) = a person having an intense or obsessive interest especially in the fields of anime and manga —often used before another noun.

● thirsty (adj) = having a need for attention or approval (informal – used on social media).

● truthiness = something that seems true but isn’t backed up by evidence.
[Popularized by comedian Stephen Colberts in 2005.]

Medical
● breakthrough (n)  = infection occurring in someone who is fully vaccinated against an infectious agent — often used before another noun (as in “breakthrough cases” or “breakthrough infection”).
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● super-spreader (n) = an event or location at which a significant number of people contract the same communicable disease — often used before another noun (as in a “super-spreader event”). [The term originally referred to a highly contagious person capable of passing on a disease to many others}
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Source: https://www.peoplefirstcontent.com/blog/7-new-words-added-to-the-dictionary-for-2023

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