The word of the day* for January 4, 2007 is “obese” — having excessive body fat.
According to the freebie calendar from the pharmacy, January is Weight Loss Month. Well, I’m all for that. I’m giving up chocolate as one of my New Year’s resolutions. Partly because I’m way too fond of the sugars and fats that go with chocolate to make it superb. I think sometimes that chocolate, like coffee, is just an excuse to mainline sugar and cream.
The other reason to eschew my favorite treat is that the chocolate producers haven’t convinced me that their goods are created entirely without slave labor. As someone once said, “You can’t stamp an origin on every bean.”
The quote† for today is from: Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), “The Anniad”:
Think of sweet and chocolate,
Left to folly or to fate,
Whom the higher gods forgot,
Whom the lower gods berate;
Physical and underfed
Fancying on the featherbed ...
;^) Jan
* The definition is from either Merriam-Webster Online, 10th Edition (http://www.m-w.com/) or The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition (http://www.bartleby.com/61/) and is used by permission.
† The quote is from either Bartleby: Great Books on Line (http://www.Bartleby.com/bartlett) or The Quotation Pages (http://www.quotationspage.com/) and is used by permission.
P.S.: Comments and word requests are welcome.
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