Dan George . Hmmm. There is a Pastor of one of our churches in Oregon by that name. I have some of his sermons. Good Stuff. But I just can't remeber the name of his church.

Would that be Pastor Dan George at Hood View SDA, in Boring, Ore.?

http://missionportland.org/Churches/churches_sda.asp

Inuit (IN-yoo-it), proper plural noun, also Innuit

the preferred term for a group of people living in the Canadian Arctic of North America and Greenland.


The singular of Inuit is inuk,” human being.” Their language is Inuktitut. They were called “Eskimos” (‘eaters of raw flesh’) by the Algonquians but that name is now considered offensive, especially in Canada. They call themselves as a group, “the Inuit,” ‘the people’. The Inuit should not be confused with the people of northern Alaska who speak Inupiaq, and those of western Alaska and the Siberian Artic who speak Yupik.


“Election for president of Nunatsiavut set for May in Labrador Inuit region: An election for president of the Inuit region of Nunatsiavut in Labrador will be held in May [2008]. Tony Andersen, the community's first minister and acting president, says the election on May 6 will take place in the communities of Nain, Hopedale, Postville, Makkovik, Rigolet, North West River and Happy Valley-Goose Bay. The community's former president, William Andersen III, stepped down in November, citing personal reasons” -found at http://www.itk.ca/ website of the Nation Inuit organization in Canada.

http://www.itk.ca/inuk-mag/index.html site of Inuktitut Magazine [PDF] Giving Voice to the Inuit Experience

arcadian (ahr-KAY-dee-uhn)

adjective
1. (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility"

noun
1. an inhabitant of the ancient Greek region of Arcadia
2. the dialect of ancient Greek spoken there
3. one who prefers or lives a simple rural life

" Arcadian tranquility to be really appreciatied should be balanced with urban excitement."

skald (skawld, skahld), noun, also spelled

any ancient medieval Scandinavian poet of the Viking period, writing in the complex Old Norse style.

related words:
skaldic , adj. of the skalds or their poetry: also spelled scaldic .
skaldship , noun


Kormákr Ögmundarson
Lausavísur.

1.
Brunnu beggja kinna
björt ljós á mik drósar
(oss hlœgir þat eigi)
eldhúss of við feldan,
en til ökla svanna
ítrvaxins gatk líta
(þrá muna oss of ævi
eldask) hjá þreskeldi.

Kormákr Ögmundarson was a 10th century Icelandic skald . The above stanza as translated by Rory McTurk:

1.
The bright lights of both
her cheeks burned onto me
from the fire-hall’s felled wood;
no cause of mirth for me in that.
By the threshold I gained a glance
at the ankles of this girl
of glorious shape’ yet while I live
that longing will never leave me.

poetry and translation can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korm%C3%A1kr_%C3%96gmundarson

Moor proper noun,

1. a Muslim of the mixed Berber and Arab people living in NW Africa; converted to Islam in the 8th century.
2. a member of this group that invaded Spain in the 8th century a.d. and established a civilization in Andalusia that lasted until the late 15th century.

moorish , adjective

The photo is from El Campello, a town on the Costa Blanca (White Coast) of Spain. During October of each year the town holds its Moors and Christians Festival 'Moros y Cristians' - wikipedia

Not "moops" as in the "Bubble Boy" episode of Seinfeld...

Ah. I missed that one.

At first sight one might suppose this word is a misspelling and mispronunciation of "conventional." It should be word useful for limrick writers, a group probably less numerous, however, than convent dwellers!

conventual (kuhn-VEN-choo-uhl)

-adjective
of, like, or relating to a convent

-noun
1. a member of a convent
2. a member of the Franciscan Order which believes in accumulating and holding property in common


“Conventual life is itself conventional due to the rules and regulations. That is to say it does not happen naturally but requires conventions, rules, orders.” -anon.
“The merits of the conventual life are imaginary, whilst marriage is an honorable state, instituted by God himself.” –Berthold Haller

These days a "convent" almost always refers to a community of women, and a "monastary" to a community of men. Historically, however, they are often interchangeable.

behovely (bee-HOVE-lee)

adj. useful
adv. usefully
synonyms: beneficial, necessary, needed

“We love the diffident person for her very diffidence and not because, by being ‘improved’, she will become otherwise. Her diffidence, insofar as it is a fault, is a behovely fault, a felix culpa, which opens the possibility of a kind of redemption; even if it is the endless promise rather than the achievement of redemption that is most felix, most happy, here.” - Smith, Richard (2002) Self-esteem: the kindly apocalypse, Journal of Philosophy of Education 36.1

“What the therapeutic approach here seems to miss, however, is that these characters are not unambiguously flawed, possessing defects which they would be improved by being cured of in just the same way as they would be better off without haemorrhoids or arthritis. These sins are behovely . Without Timothy’s diffidence there is no laughter for him and Violet. Without Fanny’s shyness Edmund will respect her for her integrity, but his love for her rests partly, we may speculate, on the feelings of care and protectiveness she inspires in him.” -ibid

"Sin is behovely , but all shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well" -Saint Julian, 1343-1416

And thow it be more or better for to do goddes wille than only for to knowe it: neuertheles it is behovely first to knowe it and liuen for to fulfille it in dede. -Norwich Castle Manuscript, fol. 1

“Human sinfulness would thereby have to be rethought as the necessary “other” of redemption, preordained by the Maker of the universe. With sin thus becoming necessary and “ behovely ”, in the apt phrase of Juliana of Norwich, historical time would no longer be divided into a “before” and an “after”, nor would salvation be available to some, but not to others. –Horst Hutter, book review

Al was behovely to the man:
For that wherof his wo began
Was after cause of al his welthe,
Whan he which is the welle of helthe,
The hihe creatour of lif,
Upon the nede of such a strif
So wolde for his creature
Take on himself the forsfaiture
And soffre for the mannes sake. -Confessio Amantis, part 9 ("The Lover's Confession") is a 33,000-line Middle-English poem by John Gower.

“We need to tell tales, the terrible tales even of the Holocaust, of the Famine. Anna Freud learned in London's bombing how ' behovely ' it was, how necessary it was, that children tell the tales of their terror, that evil be brought out into cleansing and healing light.” –Journal Gleanings, -http://www.umilta.net/telltale.html

“Now it is behovely [profitable, necessary] to tell which be
deadly sins, that is to say, chieftains of sins; forasmuch as all
they run in one leash, but in diverse manners. Now be they
called chieftains, forasmuch as they be chief, and of them spring
all other sins. The root of these sins, then, is pride, the general
root of all harms.” Geoffrey Chaucer (1340/44-1400), The Parson’s Tale