Monday, in Latin. Portuguese is the only Romance language that still uses the older Latin numbering system to name the days of the week. The rest all took up the alternative gods-based names. The Latin countries use Sabbath and Lordsday for the weekend; Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jove, Venus for weekdays. The Northern lands are all pagan, although the Celts use Lordsday Dé Domhnaigh for Sunday.
Another week of pinheadery.
Boringly, yet another bright warm sunny blue-skied morning.
Just kidding. It's never boring. It's always wonderful. I never grow tired of it.
A moment of spirituality from B's trip to the Caucasus. This relic from the Orthodox Church of Georgia:
Funny how modern people find religious relics so creepy, --post-Protestant rationalism, I guess--and still keep a lock of hair from a beloved person...to say nothing of Angie and Billy Bob's reliquaries.
This is B's foot, btw.
Another week of pinheadery.
Boringly, yet another bright warm sunny blue-skied morning.
View from my back porch
Just kidding. It's never boring. It's always wonderful. I never grow tired of it.
A moment of spirituality from B's trip to the Caucasus. This relic from the Orthodox Church of Georgia:
Funny how modern people find religious relics so creepy, --post-Protestant rationalism, I guess--and still keep a lock of hair from a beloved person...to say nothing of Angie and Billy Bob's reliquaries.
This is B's foot, btw.
1 comment:
I do not think the relic is creepy -- but it does seem a bit random that it is a timepiece.
Actually, I would like a skull barometer/thermometer/hygrometer.
--Nathan
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