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(For the Six Sentence Cafe & Bistro Poetry Slam)
In that quiet moment (hush!)
take a second (hold your breath)
look and listen (with care)
life in the balance (as we pause)
at the railroad tracks (clickety-clack!)
don't play chicken with the 5:15!
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Second.
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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!
A client was finally able to finish repair work on the fence.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
Come, take a quiet walk with me
and pause, and we will sit
by the tafty bush on cushions low and soft.
We can lean over and dip
our fingers in the water, watch the ripples,
feel the cool breezes blow.
And if we need to stretch, we follow
each winding path to the center
and back again.
We will reach up toward the sky
then bend down to smell the
millowmallow flowers.
Pluck the fruit of the heartapples,
I pick one for you,
you pick one for me.
Come take a quiet walk in
this fairy garden, and we may
never come home again.
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Brian of Brian's Home hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful for the fence pictured above, as it is finally repaired. This means we can let Cookie run to her heart's content again as we are working, instead of me having to stop work and supervise her out there. She loved to run out there and play, then run in and rest, over and over, and we like to let her!
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Today is:
Anniversary of Something That Happened So Long Ago Everyone Has Forgotten Day -- Fairy Calendar
Chinese Language Day -- UN
Get to Know Your Customers Day (celebrated the 3rd Thursday quarterly)
Go Around Humming "You Light Up My Life" Until Everybody Screams Day -- the person who thought this one up should be tied down and forced to listen to Barry Manilow songs for 12 hours straight!
Harpa Month Begins -- Traditional Icelandic Calendar (Harp, dedicated to young women as last month was dedicated to young men)
Sumardagurinn Fyrsti -- first day of summer, a legal holiday
Harvest Offering to Renenutet -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (offering to the Lady of the Fertile Fields; date approximate)
Lima Bean Respect Day
National D.A.R.E Day -- US (by Presidential Proclamation)
National Look-Alike Day
National Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Day
National Take a Break to Reset Your Mind Day -- because everyone needs a day like this
Ramazan Bayrami Eve -- Turkey
Ridvan begins -- Baha'i (begins at sunset)
St. Caedwalla of Wales' Day (Patron of converts, repentant murderers)
Birthdays Today:
Danny Granger, 1983
Joey Lawrence, 1976
Carmen Electra, 1972
Shemar Moore, 1970
Crispin Glover, 1964
Don Mattingly, 1961
Clint Howard, 1959
Luther Vandross, 1951
Jessica Lange, 1949
David Leland, 1947
Steve Spurrier, 1945
Ryan O'Neal, 1941
George Takei, 1937
Nina Foch, 1924
Ernesto Antonio "Tito" Puente, 1923
John Paul Stevens, 1920
Lionel Hampton, 1908
Harold Lloyd, 1893
Joan Miró i Ferrà, 1893
Holland McTyeire "Howlin' Mad" Smith, 1882
Daniel Chester French, 1850
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Annie Hall(Film), 1977
"Your Hit Parade"(Radio), 1935
Today in History:
The last naval battle in Byzantine history, 1453
Jews are expelled from Orange Burgundy, 1505
Jacques Cartier begins the voyage in which he will claim Canada and Labrador for France, 1534
Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam, 1657
Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1657
Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales, 1770
René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou, 1828
Edgar Allan Poe's Murder in the Rue Morgue becomes the first detective story ever published, 1841
Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete their first pasteurization tests, 1862
Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride, 1902
Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the next day, 1918
Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film, 1926
Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon, 1972
Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years, 1986
Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race, 2008
The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion kills 11 and causes rig to sink, initiating a massive oil discharge in the Gulf of Mexico, 2010
Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Tahrir Square against continuing military rule in Egypt, 2012
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded to Anthony Doerr for his novel "All the Light We Cannot See" and to Elizabeth Kolbert for "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History", 2015
The Commonwealth countries decide that Prince Charles will succeed Queen Elizabeth as the next head of the Commonwealth, 2018
Online streaming service Netflix suffers its first subscriber loss in a decade, 2022