For those who are willing
to make an effort,
great miracles
and wonderful treasures are in store.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
For those who are willing
to make an effort,
great miracles
and wonderful treasures are in store.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Hey sugarbean.
I loved your post 65 on August 4.
Little drops of water
Wear away stone.
Anon
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Hearing lots of chatter about weather the last day or so
https://www.etymonline.com/word/weather#etymonline_v_46445
Excerpts
weather (v.)
“come through safely,” 1650s, from weather (n.). The notion is of a ship riding out a storm. Sense of “wear away by exposure” is from 1757. Related: Weathered; weathering. Old English verb wederian meant “exhibit a change of weather.”
weather (n.)
Old English weder “air, sky; breeze, storm, tempest,” from Proto-Germanic *wedra- “wind, weather” (source also of Old Saxon wedar, Old Norse veðr, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, Dutch weder, Old High German wetar, German Wetter “storm, wind, weather”), traditionally said to be from PIE *we-dhro-, “weather” (source also of Lithuanian vėtra “storm,” Old Church Slavonic vedro “good weather”), suffixed form of root *we- “to blow.” But Boutkan finds this “problematic from a formal point of view” and finds only the Slavic word a likely cognate
wether (n.)
“male sheep,” especially a castrated one, Old English weðer “ram,” from Proto-Germanic *wethruz (source also of Old Saxon wethar, Old Norse veðr, Old High German widar, German Widder, Gothic wiþrus “lamb”), literally “yearling,” from PIE root *wet- (2) “year” (source also of Sanskrit vatsah “calf,” Greek etalon “yearling,” Latin vitulus “calf,” literally “yearling”).
Symbolism?
Weather-worn away by exposure/riding out a storm
Wether-a castrated male goat or sheep