The word of the day for February 7, 2008 is "lunar" — adjective — 1: crescent, lunate. 2 a: of, relating to, or resembling the moon [lunar craters], [a lunar landscape] b: designed for use on the moon [lunar vehicles]. 3: measured by the moon's revolution [lunar month]
Happy New Year!! Happy Tet Nguyen Dan!!
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This is the first day of the Lunar Year of the Rat. This is a big thing for a majority of the world's population. I noticed last weekend the grocery flower stand offering yellow mums for the holiday. The news readers here were saying that nearly a third of the Chinese population tries to get home for this holiday. In past years the news reported on the upsurge in Chinese sales of adult diapers for the holiday.
This year the annual migration has been hampered by heavy snow. Indeed, this year's news article was all about the Chinese Army declaring war on the snow. They showed a group of soldiers hacking and shoveling at a snow bank while another thirty or forty uniformed men waved red banners inscribed with what were probably patriotic, anti-snow axioms. One can't help but think that thirty or forty more workers would have moved the snow faster. Perhaps they had injured themselves and were put on light duty—a sort of purple heart for frostbite or aggravated blisters.
Our quote for the day is from Norman Cousins, Reader’s Digest, Sep 80:
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot
on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
;^) Jan
3 comments:
I watched this tension building up on the TV news when the snow stopped the poor Chinese people were trying to get home for the holiday's. It was bitterly cold and they were stranded outside or in tents provided by the authorities. Not a pleasant time for them at all.
Wouldn't it be just lovely to be able to sit on the moon and look back a our earth? Maybe more people would cherish it if they saw it from this perspective.
Hugs
Jeanie xxx
Goodbye, Year of the pig!
Wait, what? Upsurge in adult diaper sales...what?
No, perhaps, I don't want to know.
I would just love to be ablt to take a lunar voyage...imagine seeing the earth from way up there....Chinese New Year reminds me that this time last year Mary and I were in the thick of it in Singapore. What a wonderful experience it was. A year or so before we were actually in China although just over the border from Hong Kong and saw the conditions that these poor workers live and work in..I pray that they get home to their families at this one time of the year. Love Sybil x
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