Some busy executives sit in their Del Boca Vista time shares and read books on vacation. Others, especially this Summer, pick out a destination closer to home and hole up in a quaint bed & breakfast getaway. 
Not this blogger.
I’m once again headed to the White Mountains of New Hampshire for a complete spiritual, mental and physical immersion in my scansorial avocation.
Scansorial? But, of course.
I chose to highlight scansorial for two reasons:
- I LOVE discovering new, or arcane words, and see it as a key part of continuous learning (which is, in turn, fundamental to success in life in general and PR in particular).
- The word fits me like a glove. Or a climbing harness. Or a carabiner. That’s because scansorial is an adjective associated with climbing that was first used in 1804.
Check out the definition and usage below (https://wordsmith.org/words/scansorial.html).
PLEASE be sure to also read the quote of the day at the very end. One wonders if Wole Soyinka had the Trump family in mind when he penned the words?
Last, but not least, please feel free to share examples of how YOU assure continuous learning is part of your daily ritual.
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scansorial
PRONUNCIATION:
(SKAN-sor-ee-uhl)
MEANING:
adjective: Related to climbing.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin scandere (to climb). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skand- (to leap or climb), which also gave us ascend, descend, condescend, transcend, echelon, scale, and scandent. Earliest documented use: 1804.
USAGE:
“After one heavy night’s drinking a student of one of the colleges had returned to find the gates of his college firmly closed against him. Undaunted, he proceeded to climb the towering, wrought-iron obstacle … The ascent went well and he even paused momentarily to celebrate his achievement sitting aside the summit of the college crest with its Latin motto which encouraged such metaphorical, if not literal, scansorial achievements.”
Hadyn J Adams; The Spinner of the Years; AuthorHouse; 2013.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny. -Wole Soyinka, playwright, poet, Nobel laureate (b. 13 Jul 1934)