1. Vernal Equinox (First Day of Spring)--celebrating at long last the end of winter and the beginning of spring with all its symbolism of hope and promise, even if still snowing in Midwest and East.
2. Union Nations French Language Day--celebrated since 2010 to observe the use of French as one of the six official languages of the U.N. and noted by me here due to my being un étudiant a Stanford en France XIII.
3. International Day of Happiness--created by the U.N. in 2012 to promote the idea that happiness is a human goal; great goal but why not celebrated earlier especially after reading the words in our Declaration of Independence--"life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
4. World Storytelling Day--celebrating the art of storytelling and emanating from Sweden circa 1991-2 with different common themes each year. To no surprise the theme this year is "Monsters and Dragons," of which we are cursed with far too many monsters and far too few dragons. If you want to really celebrate the day tell your story in muse, ala Homer, and not prose.
On this day in:
a.
1985 in a blow for female equality, Libby Riddles solved the puzzle and became
the first woman to win the Iditarod, the Last Great Race.
b. 1987
the FDA approved the anti-AIDS drug AZT.
c. 1999
Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opened in Carlsbad,
California, thereby assurring, to the bane of parents responding in bare feet
to midnight rumblings from their toddlers' bedrooms, a fresh supply of Lego
pieces to step on.
In response to #4, this thought on spring:
"Holding on to the winter of one’s lease
With each pulse, a hope the sounds
will not cease
Today, clear images of a spring
long, long past
Youth in mind, spirit, and heart
blooms today and still lasts." Alaskanpoet 3/20/2014
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for poems on the Mustangs going to the Dance with a losing record; to honor
Cindy Abbott, a half blind 54 year old mother suffering from a rare disease who
competed in last year's Iditarod until forced out with a broken pelvis after
600 miles; on Bode Miller and the human spirit; for Cupid on Valentine's Day;
to honor Cory Remsburg to join a great collection of my poems to inspire,
touch, emote, elate and enjoy. Go to Rhymes On The Newsworthy
Times for poems on the Mustangs advance in the Dance to await the Shockers;
Russian Roulette with Putin; EPA's war against a Wyoming family; Guinness backing out of sponsoring St.
Patrick's Day Parade in NYC; on Jolly's upset win over Sink in the House's 13th
District of Florida; USS Coronado doing a little whale watching of Dana Point;
China's red line on war in Korea; De Blasio's payback to his union contributors
by attacking charter schools; Rutgers' faculty despicable attempt to ban Condi
Rice from being a commencement speaker; the crash of a Malaysian Air flight;
Obama's need for vacation time as Ukraine crisis unfolds; Newport Beach's
assault on recovery homes, including the Ohio House; on students protesting
Keystone XL as the world's largest oil producer militarily occupies the Crimea:
the banning the wearing of the American flag on Cinco de Mayo to join numerous
other comments on news events always in rhyme of course.
©March 20, 2014 Michael P.
Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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