New motto

[By the time this posts tomorrow morning through the magic of Blogger scheduling options, I hope to be on the road for at least an hour.]

This post is to explain yesterday's blog title.

As you know, I've been fretting about what shape I'll be in for this trip. I was talking to Mike about it a few weeks ago and he told me not to worry, it'll all be good no matter what, and besides, "You've always suffered well." I laughed at that, but it is true, at least in the mountains. In fact, both Mike and I have suffered well through a variety of mishaps on trips. I hope I still have that quality.

I decided it was such a good phrase that it deserved to be our motto. I asked my daughter Meghann to translate it to Latin. She's an über-nerd who not only took Latin in high school but was also president of the Latin club and married someone who also took Latin (and for the record, I took a semester of it in high school, too). Following is her explanation of what they came up with.

Well, all the stuff after the word "Mkay" was the work I did until I found the exact word you are looking for. So you can see and appreciate everything I went through. :-P

patior bene (I suffer well)
pateris bene (you suffer well. . maybe. The 2nd person of this word is tricky. Online translators and web pages say "patieris" but two textbooks say "pateris", so make of that what you will. I sided with the textbooks.)

patimur bene (we suffer well)

And this verb was a PITA. For the record. Lol! Jeremy took Latin too, and he helped with the translation.

Mkay, you have a couple of choices, depending on what inflection you want.

laboro bene - This is I suffer well, with the inflection of suffer being to work and toil, usually laborare and it's conjugations actually mean just "work" but *can* mean suffer as well.
laboras bene - you version
laboramus bene - is the "we" version

perfero bene - This is the "I" version, with the inflection meaning more along the lines of to carry through.
perfers bene - you version. I think. This verb was a weird one and kind of tricky.
perferimus bene - is the we version

tolero bene - I suffer well with inflection of endure/bear, also tolerate, which is obvious
toleras bene - you version
toleramus bene - the we version

I think out of all of them I like the 3rd set of options the best.

Now you know. And for some reason, that all reminded me of this.