A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
Summertime is an ideal time to build confidence and muscle through watersports of all kinds, something my girls have taken to like a fish to water. We're still working on swimming skills, boating, etc. but I have great ambitions to learn how to windsurf or maybe even surfboard this summer, if I can brave the frigid waters of Lake Michigan. Stay tuned!
Liturgical: Thursday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
If we have died with him we shall also live with him; if we persevere we shall also reign with him. But if we deny him he will deny us. If we are unfaithful he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.
Sanctoral: Norbert (1080-1134), Germany and France. Founder of the Norbertine Order.
Human: Birthday of Alexander Pushkin (poet) – 1799; Death of Carl Jung (psychologist) – 1961; Allied Forces invaded Normandy on D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history (WW II)– 1944
Yesterday, June 5 (I missed seeing this but still want to include it): 466 BC – the temple of Dius Fidius was dedicated on the Quirinal Hill- perhaps where the palace of the president of Italy is now erected. Dius Fidius was one of Jupiter’s forms, a guardian of truth, oaths and their guarantor. Therefore in colloquial speech the phrase medius fidius was frequently used, which was the equivalent of our “by God” or “I promise.”
Natural: Good reasons to eat seasonal produce
Italian Word of the Day: Pelliccia (fur / pelt)
Quote: "They say that misery is a good school; maybe. But happiness is the best university. It completes the education of a soul capable of good and beautiful things." --Alexander Pushkin
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