Shhhh! (Awww Monday), Inspiring Quote of the Week, and Poetry Monday

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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!

Lulu and Abby are napping, shhhhhh!

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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 Instrument.                  

     

Take ukulele

when people ask say I play

a little guitar

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For Musical Instrument Day

teacher asked kids to design

each an instrument costume,

letting imaginations shine.

One little boy worked very hard

and said he was a harp,

the teacher told him harps were bigger

though she didn't mean to carp.

"So you're saying,' he then answered,

"my design of wood and wire

is in fact not a cleverly done harp,

you're calling me a lyre!"

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He played the sax so badly,

for the worst ever he was a contender,

hearing him was hard on the ears,

he was a terrible sax offender.

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Future themes are: 

Aug. 26 instrument (Today!)

Sept. 2 height

Sept. 9 family

Sept. 16 intention

Sept. 23 teaching

Sept. 30 feedback

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It's International Dog Day!

It began as National Dog Day, sponsored by the Animal Miracle Foundation, and is now celebrating 20 years!    

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Today is:

Araw ng mga Bayahi -- Philippines (National Heroes' Day)

Arba'in-e Hosseini -- Iran (40th day after Ashura)

August / Summer Bank Holiday -- UK

Be Kind to Humankind Week:  Motorist Consideration Monday BK2HK.org

Birthday of Set -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Gaura Parba -- Nepal (women's festival for the goddess Gauri to ask for health and long life for their husbands)

Heroes Day -- Namibia

Ilmatar Day -- Finland (Water Mother, goddess of the heavens)

Krishna Janmashtami -- Hindu (birth of Lord Krishna)

Liberation Day -- Hong Kong (from Japan in 1945; no longer an official holiday, but still acknowledged by many)

Make Your Own Luck Day -- for those who refuse to sit around and wait for it

National Cherry Popsicle Day

National Day of Repentance -- Papua New Guinea

St. Adrian of Nicodemia's Day (Patron of butchers, prison guards, soldiers; against plague)

Umhlanga -- Eswatini(Swaziland) (Reed Dance for the Zulu King; a fascinating week long ritual with beautiful costumes, dancing and singing, culminating with the final dance and a speech in which the King addresses the people, on Sept. 4)

Women's Equality Day -- US (commemorates Women's Suffrage)

Yoshida no Hi Matsuri -- Yoshida, Japan (fest to mark the end of Mt. Fuji climbing season; through tomorrow)

Birthdays Today:

Chris Pine, 1980

Macaulay Culkin, 1980

Christopher Burke, 1965

Branford Marsalis, 1960

Leon Redbone, 1949

Ben Bradlee, 1921

Mother Teresa, 1910

Albert Bruce Sabin, 1906

Christopher Isherwood, 1904

Peggy Guggenheim, 1898

Lee de Forest, 1873

Albert "Bertie" von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, husband of queen Victoria, 1819

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, 1743

Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, 1740

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Cincinnati Reds vs. Brooklyn Dodgers Doubleheader(first MLB games televised), 1939

"Lightnin'"(Play), 1918

"Elijah"(Mendelssohn Op. 70 MWV A25), 1846

Today in History:

Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pieta, 1498

The Pennsylvania Ministerium, the first Lutheran denomination in North America, is founded in Philidelphia, 1748

John Fitch is granted a US patent for his working steamboat, 1791

Charles Thurber patents a typewriter, 1843

The first news dispatch by telegraph is made, 1858

Major eruption of Krakatoa, 36,000 dead, 1883

19th Amendment to the US Constitution, granting women the vote, takes effect, 1920

The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, 1939

The USSR announces the first successful test of an ICBM, 1957

The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec, 1977

John Paul I is elected Pope, 1978

The agreement on how to divide the Czech Republic and Slovakia is signed, 1992

Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of the former Georgian breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia, 2008

Israel requests that Germany arrest Klaas Carel Faber, a Nazi war criminal who killed 20 Jews at Westerbork concentration camp, 2010

Burger King agrees to purchase Canadian donut chain Tim Hortons for $11.4 billion, 2014

Half a million people take part in a peace march in Barcelona after terrorist attacks, 2017

Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, age 29, becomes the youngest to win the International Booker prize for the debut novel "The Discomfort of Evening", 2020

The longest alligator ever recorded in Mississippi, at 14ft, 3in (4.3m) and weighing 802.5 pounds (364 kilograms), is captured in the Sunflower River, 2023