to learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday

January 5: keelhaul, meaning "to haul under the keel of a ship as punishment or torture", or "to rebuke severely".

It's been a while since I've been on the receiving end of a keelhaul. That either means I'm being well-behaved or my life's become frightfully dull.

February 5: jeunesse dorée, meaning "young people of wealth and fashion".

Regardless of my actual cultural or economic status at the time, I've never run with the jeunesse dorée of my larger social world. I'm more "blue jeans and beer-from-the-bottle" than "white gloves and wine from the continent."

[I haven't been looking at these before I start the post, so I have to admit that this one took me by surprise.]

[the title quotation is by John Burroughs]