Conflagration Tonight

Tonight, New Year's Eve, there will be a "burning bowl" celebration at the Unity Church of Palm Harbor.

See you at the conflagration!

treasure

I just found out the word Thesaurus is derived from the Greek word meaning treasure. I love thesauri! Almost as much as I love dictionaries.

The plural form is thesauri or thesauruses, because it did come to English through Latin.

Psychedelic

Psychedelic is a word you don't hear much anymore...

It's obviously from Greek.

It means:
1. causing or having to do with abnormal stimulation of the consciousness or perception.
2. resembling the effects of taking psycheldelic drugs: psychedelic art.

Hope you are psyched for the holidays!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year to YOU!

Powerful Mistake

A client sent me a thank you letter (email, actually), recently. But she misspelled one word. It said
"I am greatful for all you do. Thank you."

Of course, I immediately see the error, but then I look at it and wonder if it is a mistake...

Cornucopia

For some reason, I have been thinking about this word for more than a week now:

Cornucopia.

There's a word you see around Thanksgiving, and not much any time else.

My pocket dictionary says it is a symbol for abundance, and synonymous with "horn of plenty." It's from Latin. I know what one looks like, but what is it actually made from? Is it a wicker basket, in an unusual shape, or a hollowed-out gourd...?

–noun
1. Classical Mythology. a horn containing food, drink, etc., in endless supply, said to have been a horn of the goat Amalthaea, who provided milk for Zeus as a baby.
2. a representation of this horn, used as a symbol of abundance.
3. an abundant, overflowing supply.
4. a horn-shaped or conical receptacle or ornament.

I have seeen pictures of cornucopia, and sometimes it doesn't look like a basket. But I never knew that it was supposed to be a horn from a GOAT! But it must have been an enormous goat!