Misnomer
Why so taciturn, my friend? Are there things that displease you?
If you’re amenable to chat, perhaps I could appease you.
When they named you Deirdre, what could have been the reason?
To give a child a moniker like this is surely treason.
They put it on the record the day that you were born
that you were predetermined with propensity to mourn.
What sort of security is this to give a child
otherwise unblemished—beautiful and mild?
Such a tragic future and so many doleful morrows
must greet a child named after Deirdre of the Sorrows.
Prompts today are security, amenable, taciturn, moniker and record.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I had to ask Mr Google and read this beautiful sorrowful story.
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You are fast. I have a friend named Deirdre who made me aware more than 50 years ago of the origin of her name. Luckily she has not had a sorrowful life!!!!
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Good for her!
I am only fast when I have both time and Internet. Next week, with G-d’s help, we’ll be out on water again.
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What do you mean by out on water???
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Sailing, dear Judy!
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How many years has it been since we’ve looked at an encyclopedia or dictionary? I am superstitious about getting rid of mine, but might as well. I think I have ten dictionaries of different sorts, including foreign language dictionaries.
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I am also hesitant to get rid of encyclopedia, art encyclopedia, and dictionaries.
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I have a whole room of books I never look at that I am reluctant to get rid of… many of them my husband’s books. I got rid of hundreds or perhaps a thousand books when I moved here.
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I have my mother’s books, and I am keeping them. When I am gone, I know my son will keep them too. After that, I don’t know.
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I have a book that was my mother’s. It is “The Teenie Weenies.” I loved that book. It is perhaps one my uncle, her sister’s husband, sent to us. He was the principal of a school and then the Superintendent of schools for the state of Wyoming and publishing companies were always sending him books to consider. He would send boxes full of them to us. I loved that book.
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Books, especially full editions of all works of some authors, beautifully bound and illustrated, were considered treasures in Soviet Russia. Since my collection was severely pilfered en route to the States (as an example, I received only 74 tomes of the 400-tome World Literature set), yet my mother’s collection came intact, I treasure it even more.
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