Reading the Merriam Webster Dictionary Backwards
September 28, 2014
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To my dear readers: I have been away for four days… I am sorry about not making an entry. I was in Carrboro, NC and, incidentally, went to Jessee's coffee shop for the Saturday chess games. I played a young man appropriately named "Ishmael," newly arrived to this country. He informed me after we played two hard fought games that he was in the third grade…ranked in the 1600's I think I overheard. A beautiful and sometimes humbling game. Great fun.
a book for ready reference; something regularly carried around.
I guess I have many vade mecum's (?plural) …Don Quixote, Walden, James Herriott, Mark Twain and seemingly hundreds of other books that are 'indispensable.' I was talking to one of my daughters and she thanked me for inspiring our family as they were growing up with my various passions…no TV, no computer games, lots of books and music, walks and conversations. My vade mecum was a portable encyclopedia that I carried around when we were in the car and going on vacations she tenderly reminded me as we both laughed. It has continued in these various blogs and she wanted me to know that she was thankful for that too. Very sweet and loving for a Father to hear this. They still remember that at bedtime I would pull out their notebook and ask them questions from our prior bedtime conversations : the definition of a talon, the captain's sidekick in Moby Dick, etc. (see below). Wonderful memories, the nidus of which tonight is the word vade mecum.
(Answer: Starbuck)
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