Monday, June 24, 2024

Wiggle Worm (Awww Monday), Inspiring Quote of the Week and Poetry Monday

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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!


I tried to get Emmie to do a "selfie" but she's a wiggle worm.














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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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Our dear friend Diane is taking a break

accommodations we must make

we miss her poetry and wit

so carry on as Poetry Monday's a hit!


Poetry Monday was started by Diane at On the Alberta Montana Border Charlotte/Mother Owl and i are keeping it going while she takes a blog break, we hope temporarily.  Anyone else is welcome to join in the fun, just let us know!


This week the theme is Muse.                  

     


I asked my muse to tell me

what i should write to day,

my muse did simply laugh at me

and then did run away.


She thought that i would chase her,

but on this day she thought wrong,

i told her to keep running

and i would sit and sing a song!


The threat of listening to me

and my awful singing voice

was enough to convince her

she didn't have a choice.


If she wanted to prevent

the damage to her ears,

she'd have to come back again,

i'd made it very clear.


And so she came and here did stay

as smoothly we do sail

across my page with the words

to tell you this our tale!




Future themes are:


June 24 muse (Today!)

July 1 Canada Day or free choice

July 8 candid

July 15 growth

July 22 conclusion

July 29 holiday


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Today is:


Araw ng Maynila -- Philippines (Manila Day)


Bannockburn Day -- Scotland (decisive battle of the first Scottish War of Independence, led by Robert Bruce)(FSa


Burning of the Lamps in Egypt at Sais -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar, a celebration of Isis and Neith (date approximate)


Calcio Fiorentino -- Florence, Italy (reviving 16th century style football in period costumes, through the 28th)


Carabobo Day -- Venezuela (battle commemoration)


Cat World Domination Day


Celebration of the Senses -- Wellcat Holidays urges you to enjoy all five (six?) of your senses today


Countryman's Day -- Peru (one of Peru's three Fiestas Patrias Peruanas)


Day of the Caboclo -- Amazonas State, Brazil


Feast of Rahmat (Mercy) -- Baha'i


Flying Saucer Day -- anniversary of Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting, while flying near Mt. Rainier, of 9 metallic, circular objects he could not identify


Fors Fortuna -- Ancient Roman Calendar (rites and festival for the goddess of good luck and fortune)


International Fairy Day/Faerie Day -- day for collectors, believers, and artists to share their love for the little folk   


June Holiday -- NL, Canada (formerly Discovery Day)


Museum Comes to Life Day -- another fun and funny day someone came up with


National Creamy Pralines 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!


Sólmánuðr -- Icelandic calendar, Sun Month, with the midnight sun dominating the time of year


St. John the Baptist's Nativity Day and related Midsummer celebrations (Patron of baptism, bird dealers, converts, children with convulsions, epileptics, farriers, French Canadians, lambs, monastic life, motorways, printers, tailors; against convulsions, epilepsy, hail and hailstorms, and spasms; Patron of over 60 cities and countries around the globe)

    Inti Raymi -- Peru (Incan Sun Festival)

    Jaanipaev -- Estonia

    Jani -- Latvia

    Jónsmessa -- Iceland (feast of St. John the Baptist, considered a magical night when cows can speak, seals take on human form, finding magical stones and herbs is propitious, and rolling naked in the dew is healing.)

    Macau Day -- China (celebrating the defeat of Dutch invasion forces in 1622 and paying homage to St. John as the port's Patron Saint)

    Midsummer Day -- England

    National Holiday -- Quebec, Canada (Sant Jean-Baptiste)

    Saint John the Baptist Day -- Andorra

    Saint Jonas Festival or Jonines -- Lithuania

    San Juan -- CT and GA, Spain

    Surinal -- North Korea

    Zuni Buffalo, Corn, and Comanche Dances -- Zuni Native Americans (for fertility of land and people; Vespers is also observed, as San Juan is their Patron Saint)


Swim a Lap Day -- just for fun!


Swing a Kid Day -- if swimming isn't right for you, go play on the swing set


Whit Monday -- Orthodox Churches



Anniversaries Today:


Eton College is founded by Henry VI, 1441



Birthdays Today:


Sherry Stringfield, 1967

Joe Penny, 1956

Nancy Allen, 1950

Phyllis George, , 1949

Peter Weller, 1947

Mick Fleetwood, 1947

Ellison Shoji Onizuka, 1946

Jeff Beck, 1944

Michele Lee, 1942

Claude Chabrol, 1930

John Anthony Ciardi. 1916

Phil Harris, 1904

Jack Dempsey, 1895

Roy O. Disney, 1893

Ambrose Bierce, 1842

Henry Ward Beecher, 1813



Debuting/Premiering Today:


Catch-22(Film), 1970

"Hopalong Cassidy"(TV), 1949

"American Mercury Presents:  Meet the Press"(Radio), 1945



Today in History:


Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place, 972

A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion, 1374

John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland; the first European

exploration of the region since the Vikings, 1497

Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founds Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines, 1571

Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present-day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, 1604

The colony of New Jersey is founded, 1664

Kingston, Jamaica is founded, 1692

The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England, 1717

The first republican constitution in France is adopted, 1793

The decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain, the Battle of Carabobo takes place, 1821

First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français, 1880

The first exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opens, 1901

Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract, 1916

The first airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto begins, 1918

Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Pibulsonggram, the third prime minister, 1939

The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible, 1948

The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government, 1963

Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud completes his first mission, becoming the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist, 1985

John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history, 2010

The last known Pinta Island Tortoise, Lonesome George, is found dead in the Galapagos Islands, 2012

British Prime Minister David Cameron resigns after the UK votes to leave the EU, 2016

Saudi Arabia lifts its ban on women driving, 2018

The US Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, 2022

13 comments:

  1. I am pretty sure my muse would run away from my singing too - and may not return.

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  2. Love your poem about your muse! Very playful.

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  3. We love that follow your own muse! As for the pup and selfies, it is hard for the young ones to be still and if they are not trained to pose, it is even harder but Emmie is very cute no matter what she does.

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  4. She may be a wiggle worm that she sure is a cute one.

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  5. Wiggle worm they are. She's a cutie pie.

    Love your take on Muse. Well said.

    Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.

    Have a fabulous Awww Monday and week. Love and hugs. ♥

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  6. Emmie is quite the cutie! Those were excellent Sparks and a fun poem too.

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  7. Java Bean: "Ayyy, Emmie, your pictures are adorable! Let's go play!"

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  8. Flighty muses i both our poems, and too we made the same mistake - I have corrected on my blog - next Monday is July 1st: Canada Day or Free choice.
    I too would scare the muse away with my singing voice, or maybe like you convince her she'd better stay and keep me busy writing :) I really like your poem!

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  9. Emmie is a cutie. Great sparks and poem. XO

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  10. Awww, Emmie did a fine job, wiggles and all. You sure do have a wonderful way with words - your poem was awesome.

    Woos - Misty and Timber

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  11. That Emmie is such a cutie-pie! I love her sweet face. She sure seems like she couldn't get to you fast enough -- such adoration.

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