A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
Yesterday the girls got a fishing lessons from two little Amish kids, the sons of our good friend Roman from a nearby community. Tina gutted and scaled the fish and made fish stew, which was actually quite tasty apart from the sprinkling of a few fish scales and a too heavy dose of salt. Here's a recipe for the next time the girls bring home a catch.
Liturgical: Wednesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we shall go into such and such a town, spend a year there doing business, and make a profit"–you have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow. You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears. Instead you should say, "If the Lord wills it, we shall live to do this or that."
Wednesday of Pentecost Ember Days: “Sant Crux, Lucia, Cineres, Charismata Dia Ut sit in angaria quarta sequens feria.”
Sanctoral: Rita of Cascia, Italy +1457 Patroness of impossible causes, difficult marriages, abuse victims. Beloved by Italians and Lebanese.
Human: National Maritime Day (United States); Birthday of Mary Cassatt (painter) – 1844, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes) – 1859
Extra: Writer's Almanac for May 22
Natural: Why is a nautical mile different from a land mile?
The mile was originally a Roman linear measure of 1,000 paces — about 1,618 yards. (Its length has varied considerably at different periods and in different localities; the legal mile is now 1,760 yards, or 5,280 feet.) Such a linear measurement cannot be used at sea, so the nautical mile is based on the length of one minute of arc (or 1/60 of a degree) of a great circle of Earth. Owing to the fact that Earth is not a true sphere, the mile as thus defined varies considerably. Therefore, the British assigned it a standard value of 6,080 feet.
Italian Word of the Day: Occhiata (glance / quick look)
Quote: “Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.” --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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