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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!
Every picture i get of Mr. Cal when we're walking is from the back with him sniffing something, so i caught him sitting on the couch instead.
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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. Jenny at Procrastinating Donkey is on a blog semi-break and her poetry is sorely missed, we hope she comes back soon. 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 Celebrating Poetry.
Poetry is scuttling with scissors,
Taking chances, making waves,
Saying what's truest in you,
Uttering what the soul craves.
Poetry is lightness dancing,
Fluttering in the breezes,
Allowing imagination expression
In any way it pleases.
Poetry is deep laughter
From the belly and the heart,
Expressing joy and silliness,
For each does have its part.
Poetry can express
The depths of you and me,
Let your inner poet out
For all the world to see.
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Today is:
Act Happy Week begins -- acting happy releases the body chemicals that aid health, mental and physical
Aizu Higan Shishi/Sanbiki Shishimai -- Aizu Wakamatsu, Japan (lion dances to mark the end of winter)
Back Badge Day -- Gloucestershire Regiment, British Army
Dia de Benito Juarez -- Mexico (una Fiestas Patrias)
Fragrance Day and Flower Day -- the first full day of spring
Guan Shi Yin Pu Sa -- Buddhism (birthday of Guan Yin, the goddess of mercy)
Harmony Day -- Australia (managed by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship)
Human Rights Day -- South Africa
Independence Day -- Namibia(1990)
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination -- UN
Labour Day -- Christmas Island
Memory Day -- internet based, to examine the use of memory aids throughout history
Mother's Day -- most Arabic nations
National Common Courtesy Day -- guess it's not so common any more, someone had to declare a holiday to try to foster some
National French Bread Day
National Single Parent Day -- US (by Presidential designation in 1984)
National Tree Planting Day -- Lesotho
Otago Provincial Anniversary -- Otago, New Zealand
Paper Dress Day -- the paper dress was introduced as part of an ad campaign by the Scott Paper Co. on this day in 1966
Single Parents' Day -- sponsored by Parents Without Parners, on the date of their inception in 1957
Spring Fairy Fun Day -- Fairy Calendar
St. Nicholas of Flue's Day (Patron of councilmen, difficult marriages, large families, magistrates, parents of large families, Pontifical Swiss Guards, separated spouses, Switzerland)
World Down Syndrome Day -- UN
World Forest Day/International Day of Forests and the Trees -- UN
World Poetry Day -- UNESCO
Youth Day -- Tunisia
Birthdays Today:
Ronaldinho, 1980
Kevin Federline, 1978
Matthew Broderick, 1962
Rosie O'Donnell, 1962
Ayrton Senna da Silva, 1960
Gary Oldman, 1958
Eddie Money, 1949
Timothy Dalton, 1944
Peter Brook, 1925
Julio Gallo, 1910
John D Rockefeller III, 1906
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, 1882
Florenz Ziegfeld, 1867
Modest Mussorgsky, 1839
James Jesse "King Strang" Strang, 1813
Benito Juarez, 1806
Francis Lewis, 1713
Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Annie"(Film), 1982
"Stop the Music"(Radio show), 1948
Today in History:
The Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the "True Cross" to Jerusalem, 630
Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku, 1188
3,000 Jews are killed in the Black Death riots in Efurt, Germany, 1349
n Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake, 1556
Czar Peter the Great begins his tour through West, 1697
Fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1788
With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché, 1800
Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law, 1804
The Bahá'à calendar begins, 1844
An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000, 1857
The Zoological Society of Philadelphia, the first in the US, is incorporated, 1859
Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone, 1871
Loretta Walsh becomes the first female US Navy Petty Officer, 1917
Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight, 1928
Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans,' 1935
Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio, 1952
Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, 1965
The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto, 1970
Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research, 1985
Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon, 1999
The first full face transplant is performed by surgeons at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, 2011
Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard formally apologizes to people affected by forced adoptions during the 1950s through 1970s, 2013
The European Space Agency reveals new data that indicates that the universe is 13.82 billion years old, 2013
Dave Patterson and John Hennessy win computings' Turing Award for RISC computer chips, 2018
A Bangladeshi woman with two uteruses safely gives birth to twins 26 days after giving birth to another child, 2019
As large crowds descend on the area for spring break, Miami imposes a state of emergency and a curfew, 2021
