Smokey said it long ago
Only you can prevent forest fires.
Now ONLY YOU!
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Forest Service of the US Dept. of Agriculture
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Month: January 2017
Prompt
Taking the prompt to write
verb – (of an event or fact) cause or bring about (an action or feeling)
noun – an act of assisting or encouraging
adjective – done without delay
a word that can be all three (and maybe more)
adverb – immediate spontaneous doing
It is time for prompt writing.
He promptly signed the executive order.
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origins and history of prompt
Middle English Medieval Latin 1300-1350
promptare – to incite
verb mid 1400s – to bring forth
noun early 1500 – readiness
adjective early 1500 – brought forth
from the Online Etymology Dictionary
Modern Language Association
“prompt”. Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. 27 Jan. 2017. <Dictionary.com http://www.dictionary.com/browse/prompt>.
NOAA Weather Map
today I look at the map
no hyper weather flows through
just the rhetoric and light blue
Low Tide
Sanibel Island low tide before sunrise
still night sky waning crescent moon
so many stars in the blackness
it is hard to look down from this
did I come to search for shells or
hear the gentle lapping of the water
after the storm of last night or
marvel in the quiet of the air
a few others with their lights
shining down among the sand and shells
are searching in the low tide pool
small beacons along the beach
this moment when God said look at the sand
then God said see the stars
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