Needed (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy's Poetry Day, and Brian's Thankful Thursday

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From the outside looking in, anyone seeing the way Ms. G lives her life, running like a crazy lady to help everyone else with their lioves while all her plans stand still, might be tempted to think she’s mad as a March hare.

The difficulty lies in the fact she has convinced herself and many other people they cannot handle their own problems without her help, so they call her first when anything goes wrong and expect her to either advise or drop everything and come help, which she often does.

The gentleman she is currently assisting is a special needs adult who does not have our friend Carl’s advantages of a family working to be sure he has a place; in fact, when his brother asked their father what Sean was going to do when Dad died, Dad said, “Well, I won’t be there to worry about it, will I?”

Thus here we are, Dad has passed on, the house is being sold, Sean is temporarily moving into a hotel until some friends can assist him with getting disability and other help he has needed for years, and Ms. G is in a tearing hurry to empty the remaining stuff out of the house and do some basic cleaning, since the new buyers are doing a last walk-through before closing.

Which is why yesterday found us once again loading items into the back of her "pick-em-up-truck,"  ferrying them to the storage unit, directing other helpers to move some items to the curb for garbage pick-up, and lots of vacuuming, all while watching an autistic man with OCD and other diagnoses wander around in a daze, grieving for his father and seeing everything he has ever known his whole life go out the door.

And of course, Ms. G is doing this for some commission on the house sale, but she's put a lot of her own time and money into the moving mostly for the items from the house she has been gifted, now moved into storage so she can sell them online as her pay as she cares for yet another of the many people in her life who truly depend on her.

Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is March.     

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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!

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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day!  This week's image and my poem:    

I’ll let you in on a secret

if you promise not to tell,

the best way to keep a secret is for

it only in your mind to dwell!

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Angel Brian's Family of Brian's Home - Forever hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop.   It's time to share something for which i am thankful.  

Today i am thankful i have small hands which enabled me to reach between the buckle and the seat of Ms. G’s truck to get the key which had dropped in there.  Sometimes there are advantages to being a grown up who is child size.

I am also thankful that both times we had to load a table in the truck, a much stronger  man happened to be around who offered to help (two different houses, two different tables, two different men).

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It's Purple Day, a day to support those who have epilepsy.

The Five Sibes and Their Scribe   were five Siberian Husky dogs and their human and one of the dogs, Gibson, had epilepsy.  They advocate for dogs with epilepsy, proving that with treatment, they can LiveGibStrong and have wonderful lives.

If you or anyone you know has a dog with epilepsy, they're a great resource.  Today, we celebrate strides made in caring for people and dogs (and other pets) with epilepsy.

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Today is:

Day to Mourn Victims of Biological Weapons -- commemorates the day they were outlawed in 1975

Fiesta del Arbol -- Spain (Tree Festival or Arbor Day)

Independence Day and National Day -- Bangladesh(1971)

Khordad Sal -- Zoroastrian (Birth of the Prophet Zaranhushtra)

Legal Assistants' Day

Make Up Your Own Holiday Day -- Wellcat Holidays, which has made up a bunch, wants you to do the same today!

Martyr's Day / Democracy Day -- Mali

National Letting Go of Stuff Day -- see lettinggocafe.com for details

National Nougat Day

Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianole Day -- Hawaii, US (Hawaiian Royal who worked to preserve the Hawaiian culture)

Purple Day -- International (supporting epileptics around the world)   

Spinach Day -- on this day in 1937, spinach growers in Crystal City, Texas, erected a statue of Popeye in honor of their favorite veggie

St. Braulio's Day (Patron of Aragon, Spain)

St. William of Norwich's Day (Patron of kidnap and torture victims)

Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel -- Eastern Orthodox Christianity (celebration of his role is the Annunciation)

Anniversaries Today:

Ricki Lake weds Rob Sussman, 1994

Founding of the University of Utrecht, 1636

Birthdays Today:

Keira Knightley, 1985

Amy Smart, 1976

T.R. Knight, 1973

Josh Lucas, 1972

Leslie Mann, 1972

Kenny Chesney, 1968

John Stockton, 1962

Marcus Allen, 1960

Jennifer Grey, 1960

Catherine Keener, 1960

Leeza Gibbons, 1957

Curtis Sliwa, 1954

Teddy Pendergrass, 1950

Martin Short, 1950

Vicki Lawrence, 1949

Steven Tyler, 1948

Diana Ross, 1944

Bob Woodward, 1943

Erica Jong, 1942

James Caan, 1939

Alan Arkin, 1934

Leonard Nimoy, 1931

Sandra Day O'Connor, 1930

Pierre Boulez, 1925

Tennessee Williams, 1911

Viktor Frankl, 1905

Robert Frost, 1874

Jane Arminda Delano, 1862

Nathaniel Bowditch, 1773

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Fences"(Play), 1988

"The Young and the Restless"(TV), 1973

"Cannon"(TV), 1971

"Funny Girl"(Musical), 1964

"Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi/The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi"(Play), 1952

Today in History:

William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables, 1484

The first British Sunday newspaper is published (British Gazette & Sunday Monitor), 1780

The US Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana, 1804

An earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas, Venezuela, leaves 20,000 dead, 1812

The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, NY, 1830

Eastman Film Co manufactures the first commercial motion picture film, 1885

New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies, 1931

William H. Hastie becomes the first black Federal Judge in the US, in the US Virgin Islands, 1937

Jonas Salk announces the first successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children, 1953

East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form People's Republic of Bangladesh, 1971

Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C., 1979

The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world, 1999

A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man, 1999

The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China, 2005

Richard III of England (1452-1485) is reburied at Leicester Cathedral in England, after being discovered under a carpark in Leicester in 2012, 2015

US, European Union and Ukraine expel more than 100 Russian diplomats in response to Russian use of nerve gas in UK, 2018

The US Federal Trade Commission confirms it will investigate Facebook over privacy concerns, 2018

The Pablo Picasso painting Buste de Femme(1938), stolen 20 years prior, is recovered by a Dutch art detective, 2019

The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses after being struck by a cargo ship that had lost power, 2024

Masaki Kashiwara becomes the first Japanese mathematician to be awarded Mathematics' highest honor, the Abel Prize, for his work on the theory of symmetry, 2025