Amuse-bouche:

(Leaving a restaurant due to no open tables): “No one eats here anymore because it’s too crowded.”

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Today’s Wonderful Word: “zeitgeber.”

Definition: an environmental cue, as the length of daylight or the degree of temperature, that helps to regulate the cycles of an organism’s biological clock.

Etymology: Zeitgeber comes from German, in which it was coined by J. Aschoff in 1954. Zeitgeber, first used in America in the 1970s, means literally, “time-giver,” on the model of the German word Taktgeber, “electronic synchronization device, timer, metronome.”

Example: The sunrise served as a powerful zeitgeber for the birds, signaling the start of their daily singing rituals.

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You’re home / Your home by Erin Hanson

If there’s one thing that I may tell you,

Let it be: You are your home,

Your body is the only house

That you will truly ever own.

Maybe it’s got some broken windows

And there are tear-stains on the floors,

Maybe you lock the things you wish weren’t

Behind its many doors.

But there is wisdom on its bookshelves

And a laugh to light the rooms,

There’s a vase upon its table

Where the love you’ve grown all blooms.

Dreams sit on the mantelpiece

Next to kindness and your trust,

Where you use them all so often

They have no time to collect dust.

So please don’t look at mansions

With that envy in your eyes,

There’s more that makes a home

Than its appearance or its size.

Your body is your shelter

So you deserve to love it all,

Don’t let the world stand round outside

And tell you how to paint your walls.

How lucky that you have somewhere

To protect you from the night.

And if there cracks left from the past?

Well then they just let in more light.

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Answer to Saturday’s riddle:

I’m a warrior (as in the reference to the warrior yoga postures).