This is NOT the photo I had intended to use for this journal entry. My intention was to have a photo of the last day of the Property Management class I presented last week and this week, but as we all know, the best laid plans... On a more positive note, the class is over, there were no casualties over the four days of training, and everyone in the class passed the test. And, I am pretty damned sure everyone that was in attendance learned something, and I am POSITIVE that I learned something. So, I hope you enjoy this picture of the sunrise, and, oh yes, today is the finish of Jody and my 27 years as a couple. Tomorrow will start our 28th year. We weren't allowed to be legally married until 2013, but we made the best of the years between 1992 and 2013. Enjoy your evening!Quiddity -- Noun. 1. whatever makes something the type that it is. essence. 2a. a trifling point. quibble. b. an unusual opinion or habit. "The elegant, punky, petroleum-like smokiness that imbues every good meszcal, and which is its quiddity, comes from the burning of the agave heart." Roy Harvey, Coloradoan, May 19, 2016
Did You Know? When it comes to synonyms of quiddity, the Q's have it. Consider quintessence, a synonym of the "essence of a thing" sense of quiddity (this oldest sense of quiddity dates from the 14th century). Quibble is a synonym of the "trifling point" sense; that meaning of quiddity arose from the subtler points of 16th-century academic arguments. And quirk, like quiddity, can refer to a person's eccentricities. Of course, quiddity also derives from a "Q" word, the Latin pronoun quis, which is one of two Latin words for "who" (the other is qui). Quid, the neuter form of quis, gave rise to the Medieval Latin quidditas, which means "essence," a term that was essential to the development of the English quiddity. Got that?
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