Word of the Day - 3/17
Hi Folks!

I hope everyone's day is going wonderfully well! TBurt took this picture while skiing (did I mention that he broke his camera on the trip?--maybe we should take up a collection to help him get it fixed, or, maybe not :)). Here you go!:

Demise: I'm sure many of you know the word demise, but I imagine that you've used it almost exclusively to mean "death". To the best of my knowledge however, it originally (and still...) refers to a loss of sovereignty, or a passing of sovereignty from one king to the next (which I suppose generally happens because of death, but no matter...). Anywho, I thought of this word because when I first looked at the picture, two things occurred to me--one, that it looked as if the mountain was wearing some sort of crown, and (or) two, that it looked like the mountain was pointing toward the sky, almost in deference (a strange thing for a king to do...). Then TBurt told me that the mountain was actually a dead volcano, and suggested that I might do an entry dealing with death (but then quickly recanted, saying that it sounded macabre). How macabre though, is the thought of a dead volcano? A dead volcano is a peaceful volcano--one which has extinguished or expelled its destructive tendencies. So then, (to return to my original impressions of the photo) maybe we can see the crowned mountain as a sort of king whose demise is not a death, but rather an abdication.

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