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Awww Monday is hosted by Sandee at Comedy Plus.
Join us every Monday for Awww...Mondays. Post a picture that makes you say Awww... and that's it.
Make sure you get the code from Sandee's site, linked above, and leave a link to your post so we can visit you. What better way to start the week than with a smile!
Some dogs (Jack) like a hidey hole when the weather is bad.
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Sparks is the brainchild of Annie of McGuffy's Reader, who wanted us to post something positive and uplifting at the start of the week. While she no longer blogs, i like to post an Inspiring Quote of the Week in her honor.
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Poetry Monday was started by Diane at On The Alberta/Montana Border. Charlotte/Mother Owl participates, and now Karen at Baking in a Tornado is jumping in at least once a month, too. Anyone else is welcome to join in the fun, just let Diane know!
This week the theme is Canoes.
May the people you love be many
and those who don't like you be few,
may you always reach for the stars
and paddle your own canoe.
May your work bring satisfaction
and all your hobbies, too,
may you keep that work/life balance
and paddle your own canoe.
May your joyful days greatly outnumber
those that are sad and blue,
may you reach out for adventure
and paddle your own canoe.
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Today is:
Alexandra Rose Day -- anniversary of the tradition started by Queen Alexandra on this day in 1912, in which roses and rose emblems were sold in London and the UK, with the money going to smaller charities that are not usually in the national spotlight; also by tradition, the Lord Mayor of London bought the first rose
Alexandra Rose Charities still exists, but uses other forms of fundraising and now supports healthy eating initiatives among lower income mothers and children
Armed Forces Day -- Azerbaijan
Barcode/UPC Day -- the first scanner, at Marsh's Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, scanned its first item, a pack of Wrigley's gum at 8:01am this day in 1974
Beautician's Day -- on a couple of websites, while others list other days; if yours puts the "beauty" in beautician, remember her next time you go have your do tended to
Holiday for the Shemsu of Heru -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Independence Day -- Madagascar[Fetin'ny Fahaleovantena]; Somalia
International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking -- UN
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture -- UN
June Holiday -- NL, Canada (formerly Discovery Day)
National Canoe Day -- Canada
National Chocolate Pudding Day
Please Take My Children To Work Day -- originally sponsored by mamasaid.net; a tongue-in-cheek way to request that you give a full- or part-time stay-at-home mom a break today!
St. Pelayo's Day (Patron of abandoned people, torture victims; Castro Urdiales, Spain; Torreira, Portugal)
Sunthorn Phu Day -- Thailand (celebration of the country's best-known Royal Poet)
Ziua Tricolorului -- Romania (Flag Day)
Birthdays Today:
Jennette McCurdy, 1992
Jason Schwartzman, 1980
Derek Jeter, 1974
Gretchen Wilson, 1973
Chris O'Donnell, 1970
Paul Thomas Anderson, 1970
Sean P. Hayes, 1970
Harriet Wheeler, 1963
Greg LeMond, 1961
Chris Isaak, 1956
Claudio Abbado, 1933
Eleanor Parker, 1922
Charlotte Zolotow, 1915
"Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, 1914
Colonel Tom Parker, 1909
Peter Lorre, 1904
Pearl S. Buck, 1892
Sir Robert Laird Borden, 1854
Lord Kelvin, 1824
Abner Doubleday, 1819
Arthur Middleton, 1742
Debuting/Premiering Today:
For Your Eyes Only(Film), 1981
"Absurd Person Singular"(Play), 1972
"A Hard Day's Night"(Album, US version, release), 1964
"The Valkyrie"(Opera, WWV 86B), 1870
Today in History:
Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire; General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield, 363
The legendary Pied Piper leads 130 children out of Hamelin, German, 1284
Richard III is crowned king of England, 1483
Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima, 1541
W. K. Clarkson patents the first bicycle, 1819
The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States, 1870
The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity, 1909
The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco, 1945
William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor, 1948
The Berlin Airlift begins, 1948
The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships, 1959
The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, 1974
Indira Gandhi establishes emergency rule in India, 1975
The CN Tower, the world's tallest free-standing structure on land, is opened to general public, 1976*
Biologists J. Craig Venter and Francis S. Collins announced that their research groups had mapped the human genome, 2000
Wangdue Phodrang Dzong, the four thousand year-old ridge-top monastery in Bhutan catches fire and is destroyed; no relics were lost in the fire because the monastery was under renovation, 2012
Following the military coup in Thailand, people are warned that anyone calling for protest on social media will be prosecuted for sedition, 2014
The city of Falluja is freed from Islamic State control after a month-long campaign by Iraqi forces, 2016
Iceland’s presidential election is won by history professor Guðni Jóhannesson, 2016
The Panama Canal's third set of locks opens for commercial traffic, doubling the Canal’s capacity, 2016
A polio outbreak is confirmed in New Guinea by the World Health Organization, 18 years after it was declared free of the disease, 2018
More than 5,000 smuggled turtles are discovered in luggage at the Kuala Lumpur Airport, Malaysia, bound for India, 2019
*It is still the tallest in the Western Hemisphere
I try to paddle my own canoe, but often get jammed up on rocks and have to find ways around them. Lola hides under the bed or TV cabinet when the thunder is too loud.
ReplyDeleteI love your canoe poem and wisdom. Some days I go round in circles, but I keep paddling.
ReplyDeleteWe all need a canoe or two.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Sometimes bad weather makes me want to hide, too. We had thunderstorms yesterday. All the big booms and lightening was a bit unsettling. I know it has to be tough on critters. The canoe poem reminded me of the video DH shared of a whale that swallowed two canoeist or kayakers off shore of California a few days ago. How frightening that had to be! That's why I don't go in to the ocean. There are things that want to eat you on purpose or accidentally as was the case this time. The whale spat them out and the women were unharmed. They were lucky. Have an awwwesome Monday, my friend!
ReplyDeleteWe need to keep paddling our own canoes, I think.
ReplyDeleteAnd all of us need a place to hide when the weather gets rough.
Love your canoe advice. Sometimes the waters get rough, but you have to cling to the canoe and keep on paddling until you are back in the smooth waters.
ReplyDeleteI know I need to paddle my own canoe, but sometimes I just want someone to help. Poor Jack, Precious hides from storm noise too. I'd like to join her sometimes.
ReplyDeleteOur Angel Little Bit always looked for safe places when the weather was bad. Made me smile.
ReplyDeleteLove the Sparks and love the poem. I've always paddled my own canoe.
Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Awww Monday and week. Love and hugs. ♥
Sweet doggie in its hidey hole ~ great 'Sparks' ~ Xo
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Poor Jack, maybe a thunder shirt would help. Nice sparks and poem. XO
ReplyDeleteThose were terrific Sparks! Jack, it will all be okay.
ReplyDeleteThis poem is almost a blessing. I love it! And I learned something new. Never heard the saying "Paddle your own canoe" ever before - or known just how symbolic canoes are for Canadians. I almost feel like re-doing my poem now. But I won't.
ReplyDeletePS. I think I commented yesterday with almost the same words, but I don't see itt. Maybe a cyber-worm ate it, maybe the spam-monster ;)
Mimi dear,
ReplyDeleteI wrote this very morning my apologizes to Sandee for not to have written my comment yesterday after linking my blog-post because the phone rang just when I was writing it and then, after a very long conversation, I off my pc and went to the market without ending and sending it.
It's hard to me to have time for the pc in the evening, I never turn it on. So not even yesterday evening I wrote it. I'm here praying you to forgive my delay!
X Daniela
I absolutely love your poem! May we all paddle our own canoe!
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