Today, October 6, is Mad Hatter Day and happens to be one of my favorite celebrations. Based on the Alice in Wonderland character who wears a hat with a price tag of 10/6 on it, the stated function of the day is to celebrate the silly and ridiculous. But I’m much more interested in the […]
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The first Wednesday in October is celebrated as Random Acts of Poetry Day. If you know anything about me, you recognize poetry is important to me. I think it’s a powerful way to bring us back into our hearts, and frankly I think there’s never been a time when we needed to be more heart-based […]
Continue reading »I’m filing my eleventh entry in the 100 Untimed Books challenge under prompt #85 – Coming of Age. I’m including two books as they’re on the same topic. Persephone written by Sally Pomme Clayton and illustrated by Virginia Lee is a children’s book retelling the classical Greek myth in a more traditional way. The second book, Persephone […]
Continue reading »With September rapidly winding to a close, I didn’t want it to slip past without acknowledging it as National Honey Month. And it seems the universe conspired to inspire me to write about it today, gifting me with three honey-relevant experiences. First I had a dream, where I was lying in a field of night-blooming […]
Continue reading »While we’re weeks away from the official calendar start to autumn here, for me there is no denying the whispers and foreshadowing of those days ahead. It seems earlier to me than usual, but then again, nothing about this year or the accustomed timeline of how things unfold has felt “normal” this year. On the […]
Continue reading »Although I don’t like to think of time as speeding by quite so quickly to be bringing us to the ending days of August already, the fact that it IS the last Friday of the month is something to celebrate. It’s time for promoting positive news via We Are the World Blogfest. It delights me […]
Continue reading »Today, August 12 is World Elephant Day, dedicated to the preservation and protection of the world’s elephants. There are so many factors endangering the elephant populations, including habitat loss due primarily to deforestation; human-elephant conflict because elephants now must share habitat with humans; and mistreatment in captivity. But by far the greatest danger is due […]
Continue reading »This being the last Friday of the month, it’s time for promoting positive news via We Are the World Blogfest. I like to think of us as ambassadors highlighting little pockets of love and light for others to celebrate as well. The special lead co-hosts for this month are: Simon Falk, Roshan Radhakrishnan, Inderpreet Uppal, […]
Continue reading »is for zinnia Zinnias are popular garden flowers because they come in a wide range of flower colors and shapes, and they can withstand hot summer temperatures, and are easy to grow from seeds. A curious alternate name for them is youth and old age, and frankly I’ve never come upon a reasonable […]
Continue reading »is for xylo Meant to be used in the formation of compound words, xylo means wood. X words are hard enough to find, and one relating to this abecedarium’s theme of flora is no exception. I’m not going to combine xylo with anything, but rather embrace it boldly as the wood it […]
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