| Day 1.
Mo’s Wisdom: May you have enough happiness
to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong…enough sorrow to keep
you human and enough hope to make you happy.
Mo’s Things to Think
About: If teachers taught, why don’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian
eats vegetables…what does a humanitarian eat? In what language do people
recite at a play…and play at a recital? You ship by a truck and send
cargo by ship. Why?
Mo’s New Word for
Today: Intaxication: Eurphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until
you realize it was your money to start with!
More Mo’s Wisdom:
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle
of it. Drive carefully, it’s not only cars that can be recalled by their
maker.
Day 2.
Mo’s Wisdom: Love
begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Mo’s Things to Think
About: How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same – while a wise
man and wise guy are opposites?
Mo’s New Word for
Today: Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
Mo’s Very Interesting
Word for Today: Did you know that our word “Admiral” – usually meaning the
chief commander of a navy came from the Arabic word amir al-bahr, which
means “Lord of the Sea?”
It’s true – and you
learned something from Mo!
More Mo’s Wisdom:
Never buy a car you can’t push. Never put both feet in your mouth at the
same time, because then you don’t have a leg to stand on.
Day 3.
Mo’s Wisdom: The
happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they
just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
Mo’s New Word for
Today: Sarchasm: The gulf between the author or sarcastic wit and the
person who doesn’t get it!
More Mo’s Wisdom: If
ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people happy?
Mo’s Very Interesting
Word for Today: Did you know that the word “academy” - meaning a place of
learning or a group of learned men (people), like the French Academy
actually comes from Akademos (or Academos), which was the name of the
owner of the area that Plato rented as a place for his school?
It’s true…and you
learned a tidbit from Mo!
Day 4.
Mo’s Wisdom: Dream
what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be,
because you have only one life and once chance to do all the things you
want to do.
Mo’s New Word for
Today: Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
More Mo’s Wisdom: You
may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one
person.
Mo’s Very Interesting
Word for Today: Arctic is the word we use when we mean extremely cold or
north. The Greek word for bear was…arctic! Is this because the
constellation The Great Bear pointed north? Were the Greeks aware of the
great bears of the north?
Mo has another little
interesting thing to tuck in here. Did you know that our modern phrase
“get your bearings,” meaning to find out where you are, comes from the
fact that the constellation The Great Bear points to the North Star? It’s
true!
Gotcha! You learned
something from Mo!
Day 5.
Mo’s Wisdom: Don’t go
for looks; they can deceive. Don’t go for wealth; even that faces away.
Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a
dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.
Mo’s New Word for
Today: Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
More Mo’s Wisdom:
Happiness comes through doors you didn’t even know you left open.
One of our Colquitt
County First Grade teachers gave each of her students the first half of a
well-known proverb and asked them to come u p with the remainder of the
proverb. It’s amazing that these were done by first graders as their
insight will surprise you!
Better to be safe
than….punch a 5th grader! |
