Fun Facts for the week #2

 Word of the Week- Asparagus

Did you know? 

The word asparagus comes ultimately from Greek asparagos (a word related to the Greek verb spargan ‘swell,’ to the Latin verb spargere ‘scatter’ - ultimate source of English sparse, disperse, and aspersions - and also to English spark), and has over the past 150 years or returned to the full Latin form, asparagus, in which it was originally borrowed by English.  In the intervening centuries, however, it went through several metamorphoses: in the 16th century, the truncated Medieval Latin variant sparagus was current (it also occurs in one isolated example from a book of Anglo-Saxon remedies of around 1000AD); from then until the 18th century an anglicized version, sperage, was used; and in the 17th century folk etymology (the process by which an unfamiliar word is assimilated to one more familiar) turned asparagus into sparrowgrass.  This gradually died out during the 19th century, but the abbreviation grass remains current in the jargon of the grocery trade.

Source: Dictionary of Word Origins by John Ayto

As you begin another busy and perhaps hectic week, try to remember to be like an asparagus.  Stand tall, be true to yourself, but also be flexible in your schedule, especially if plans change.  I know it can be hard to accept or be flexible with last minute changes, but understanding that not everything is meant to work out or that your schedule doesn’t have to be ‘written in stone’ really is okay.  Remember this quote as you go through the motions of this week, it’s one of my favorites: “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain” - Vivian Greene.