Word of the Day: Harmonious

Word of the Day: Harmonious

Word of the Day: Harmonious

har-mo-ni-ous / härˈmōnēəs
 
adjective
 
1.      pleasing to the ear; musically concordant
Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
Giuseppe Mazzini, 1805-1872
 
2.      being in accord through action or feeling
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993
 
3.      having all parts agree with each other
To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
Jane Rule, 1931-2007

Thank you for including the Dictionary Project in the good work you do in your club.  In my club, we have provided Dictionaries for third-grade students for enough years that now we are having former students help us to present dictionaries each year.  They are often returning to the same classrooms that they were third-grade students.  Teachers plead every year for us to NEVER quit this valuable project.  They tell us that students NEED paper books to learn to read, to learn to do research and to do independent study.  Please send me pictures of your presentations and tell me about your visits to the schools to give dictionaries to the students. To be included in our newsletter you can send me your stories at DG.2019@5630mail.org.

Word of the Day: Harmonious

Word of the Day: Aisle, Isle and I’ll

Word of the Day: Aisle, Isle and I’ll

aisle
aisle / īl
noun
 
1.     the passageway between seats, shelves, counters, etc. such as in a bus, auditorium, store or warehouse
The excitement spread through the train, and men, and even women, left their seats, overflowing the aisles. 
From “The Escape of Mr. Trimm” by Irvin S. Cobb, 1876 – 1944
 
2.     a long, narrow passageway
Up and down the long grassy aisles they wandered, reading the quaint, voluminous epitaphs, carved in an age that had more leisure than our own. 
From “Anne of The Island” by Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1874 – 1942
 
3.     a lateral division in a church from the nave by a row of columns
Hard by, the aisle of the church called the d’Urberville Aisle looked on imperturbably. 
From “Tess of the d’Urbervilles – A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented” by Thomas Hardy, 1840 – 1928
 
isle
isle / īl
noun
 
1.     a small island
The narrow seas around these isles, where British admirals keep watch and ward upon the marches of the Atlantic Ocean, are subject to the turbulent sway of the West Wind. 
From “The Mirror of the Sea” by Joseph Conrad, 1857 – 1924
 
I’ll
I’ll / īl
contraction
 
1.     the contraction of the words I and will or shall
Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’llunderstand.
Chinese Proverb

Thank you for including the Dictionary Project in the good work you do in your club.  In my club, we have provided Dictionaries for third-grade students for enough years that now we are having former students help us to present dictionaries each year.  They are often returning to the same classrooms that they were third-grade students.  Teachers plead every year for us to NEVER quit this valuable project.  They tell us that students NEED paper books to learn to read, to learn to do research and to do independent study.  Please send me pictures of your presentations and tell me about your visits to the schools to give dictionaries to the students. To be included in our newsletter you can send me your stories at DG.2019@5630mail.org.

Feed my Starving Children, SUCCESS!

Feed my Starving Children, SUCCESS!

Feed my Starving Children, SUCCESS!

On Friday August 16th and Saturday August 17th, Holdrege Rotary Club #1488 hosted a Feed My Starving Children Mobile Pack. The volunteer packers came from 26 area churches and organizations. It was my honor to be there for all three scheduled packing sessions.  I was truly blown away with everyone that showed up on Friday night.  We had at least 350 volunteers who arrived (eager to wear beautiful party hats; AKA, hairnets).  They were probably as young as 4 or 5 and well into their 80’s or maybe 90’s.  Everyone could help, and everyone had a job. 

The meals are based on rice, soy, vitamins and chicken flavoring to feed malnourished children.  Michele High from Holdrege Rotary did an amazing job shepherding people to get ready for all these volunteers.  She had a lot of help from others in the club including Bob Butz and Chuck Mix.  Everything went so smooth. I know that many others did a lot of work behind the scenes to get set up before any of the volunteers could begin to pack a single meal.  

Working together there were 638 volunteers that packed 720 boxes.  Each box contains 36 bags of food.  Volunteers packed a total of 25,920 serving bags, that is 155,520 meals!  they did this in just 6 hours, so it was truly an orchestra to behold.  Check out the pictures below. 

Thank you to all of our individual financial donors and 12 corporate sponsors for helping us cover the $37,375 cost of the meals AND thank you to all who gave up their time to get the packing done! With your help, we reached our 2019 packing goal to feed 426 children for one full year!

Word of the Day: Harmonious

Word of the Day: Verbatim

Word of the Day: Verbatim

ver-ba-tim / vərˈbādəm
 
adverb
 
1.      in the exact same words
I will never repeat something verbatim on the air unless I know it’s accurate.
Al Michaels, 1944-
 
adjective
 
1.      word-for-word; corresponding to the exact same words being quoted
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1836-1907
 
2.      skilled at recording or remembering words or events exactly as they occurred
I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can’t remember what happened a couple of days ago.
James Herriot, 1916-1995
 
Etymology
First recorded in the late 15th century, verbatim is a Latin word meaning ‘word for word’. It comes from the Latin verbum, meaning ‘word’. It was first recorded as an adjective in 1737.

Thank you for including the Dictionary Project in the good work you do in your club.  In my club, we have provided Dictionaries for third-grade students for enough years that now we are having former students help us to present dictionaries each year.  They are often returning to the same classrooms that they were third-grade students.  Teachers plead every year for us to NEVER quit this valuable project.  They tell us that students NEED paper books to learn to read, to learn to do research and to do independent study.  Please send me pictures of your presentations and tell me about your visits to the schools to give dictionaries to the students. To be included in our newsletter you can send me your stories at DG.2019@5630mail.org.

Word of the Day: Harmonious

Word of the Day: Lugubrious

Word of the Day: Lugubrious

lu-gu-bri-ous / lu̇-ˈgü-brē-əs
 
adjective
 
1.      mournful, usually in an exaggerated manner
Westervelt said little to her during these days; he only looked, and his doleful gestures, his lugubrious grimaces, were comic.
From ‘The Light of the Star’ by Hamlin Garland, 1860-1940
 
2.      dismal; dreary; gloomy
[The cello] has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.
Irene Thomas, 1919-2001
 
Etymology
The first recorded use of this word was c. 1600, at which time it had an alternate spelling, lugubrous. The word comes from the Latin lugubris, ‘pertaining to mourning’, which can be traced from the word lugere, ‘to mourn’. The Latin word uses the root leug, meaning ‘to break or cause pain’.

Thank you for including the Dictionary Project in the good work you do in your club.  In my club, we have provided Dictionaries for third-grade students for enough years that now we are having former students help us to present dictionaries each year.  They are often returning to the same classrooms that they were third-grade students.  Teachers plead every year for us to NEVER quit this valuable project.  They tell us that students NEED paper books to learn to read, to learn to do research and to do independent study.  Please send me pictures of your presentations and tell me about your visits to the schools to give dictionaries to the students. To be included in our newsletter you can send me your stories at DG.2019@5630mail.org.