Orbisculation Nation

🚨Attention Orbisculation Nation! We have exciting news!!! Reader's Digest recently launched a new game in honor of our beloved word! The "Orbisculate Challenge," which involves finding words using the letters within "orbisculate," originated from the inventive minds of seniors at a retirement home in Torrington, Connecticut back in 2022 (when Reader's Digest first published our story). Thanks to Sue Mollineaux, a fan of Reader's Digest and a member of Orbisculation Nation, the magazine heard about this clever word game --- and decided to make it a regular feature! Each issue features a different word that readers are encouraged to find other words within.

We are so thrilled that Reader's Digest named this word game after our father's word. We invite you all to play the original version and share with us all the words you find within "orbisculate"! One of our best players found 580 words!!! Can you beat that score?! Give it a shot and let us know! 🍊🍋

Guess what? We've got another orbisculate poem for you, kindly submitted by Marvin N. Robbins! Thanks a lot for this masterpiece, Marvin! 🍊🍋

And now for a special announcement 😮: have you noticed how many orbisculate poems we've been sharing lately? From the Nate saga, to this poem about orbisculation---we love them, and we want MORE! Send us your poems to [email protected] to be featured on our social media! You can either help us continue the Nate saga, or come up with something completely new! It's all fair game, as long as you use the word "orbisculate" in your pieces! We can't wait to see what you create! Thanks for helping us spread the word!!! 🤩

Remember Nate? Well, we have a new poem about him thanks to another member of Orbisculate Nation! 🍊🍋

Here's your reminder to watch out for orbisculation when making orange juice or interacting with citrus this summer! Thank you so much to the talented Cathy Collins Adler for creating such wonderful artworks to help spread the word!!! You rock Cathy!!! 🍊🍋🧃🤩

Thank you so much Novel Breads Co. for helping us spread the word in such a delicious way! Everyone, be sure to try a loaf of orbisculate bread this summer! 🍊🌞⛱

We recently received this hilarious limerick by the "Three Orbisculophiles":

“I’ll have a Corona,” said Nate,
Who, without a forethought of his fate,
Then squeezed a lime wedge
To de-skunk the beer’s edge
And got juiced as the pulp did orbisculate.

Of course, we simply HAD to reply with a limerick of our own🤩:

Sorry to hear about Nate's lime,
We are still delighted with your rhyme!
Thank you for supporting Orbisculate,
And for the enthusiasm of Nate!
Please continue using the word this summertime.

Moral of the story: don't be like Nate, and shield yourself from orbisculation if you can help it!!! 😅🍋

Thanks so much to CBS Mornings for helping us spread the word about Orbisculate in a "Kindness 101" episode! We are so grateful to On the Road with Steve Hartman and his kids for sharing our story and asking insightful questions! Please keep helping us spread the word!

When Jonathan and Hilary Krieger’s father, Neil, died of COVID, they wanted to find a unique way to honor him. So they launched a campaign of 78 goals to get the word “orbisculate” — which Neil invented — into the dictionary: “The next generation will have the word and it will live on through them.”

Happy day everyone!!! Thank you to City of Citrus Heights Government for doing so much to spread the word!

Everyone be careful on Wednesday! It's National Work Zone Awareness Week's "Go Orange Day" -- could be a lot of orbisculating!

https://www.nwzaw.org/participate.html

Thank you to the wonderful for accomplishing goal #27 In A Young Adult Book with her debut novel Jawbreaker! Check this book out at your local library or anywhere books are sold. We're delighted that young readers have such zest for this pulpy, flavorful novel! (okay, we'll stop) 😋🍊

It's never too early to start planning for next year's Halloween costume ... May we suggest you consider following the lead of this young lady? What a great way to spread the word!

Goal #9 was completed with this beautiful cake from Tres Belle Cakes! We are sure it was also delicious! Were the wedding guests given protective eyewear before they cut into it?

If there was ever a perfect Winter wedding cake, this is it!