Day 4–Positivity Challenge

Continuing with posting three positive things in my life (Day 1 and explanation). Actually, everything I’ve been posting have been about things I appreciate in my life. Still, I guess I could stretch appreciate into positive with this slender thread of a definition from Merriam-Webster:”. . . thinking about the good qualities of someone or something.” There! 

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  1. My “lucky cat” figurine. It’s perched in front of the leaded-glass window near my front door with beckoning left paw raised. Maneki-neko, literally “beckoning cat,” is a common Japanese figurine (lucky charm, talisman) believed to bring good luck to the owner. 
  2. Gloria (2013): An award-winning movie set in Santiago and centered on a free-spirited older woman (sheesh! she’s in her late forties), and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs. Paulina Garcia’s the star. Fabulous. The movie is subtle, understated, well-acted, no wham bam American slick. Loved it.
  3. Raw salmon. With fresh ginger, wasabi and soy sauce. I have it at least once a week. Cooking ruins salmon for me.

D is For Dinkum

Dinkum – (Australian and New Zealand) genuine, authentic, guileless.

As in, He was a fair dinkum bloke with no pretensions.  I’ve always liked this word, another one we didn’t use back home in Africa.  According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of this word was in 1905, origin unknown. Our word for genuine was pukka, (do not pronounce puke-a), no doubt from our colonial relationship to India. Origin, Hindi and Urdu and means cooked, ripe, solid, from Sanskrit pakva. Makes sense?

Merriam-Webster has pukka as a synonym for dinkum. Now maybe pukka can be wiggled into dinkum, but I don’t think so. The latter is more along the lines of bona fide, certifiable, as in Pukka quarters with a swarm of servants. Dinkum is well, more personal.

 

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