1. World Book Day—promulgated by UNESCO on April 23, 1995 to promote
reading, publishing and copyright.
2. International Pixel-Stained
Technopeasant Day—proclaimed by author Jo Watson to encourage the posting on
the web of quality works of writing by authors and observed since April 23,
2007.
3. UN English Language Day—promulgated by UNESCO to promote
multidiversity represented by one on the six official languages at the UN—English,
one of the most vibrant and changing languages in use.
4. National
Poetry Month—this is an observance given the power of poetry to move, inspire,
encourage, emote, etc. that should be celebrated daily; apologies for not
picking this holiday up to post on April 1.
5. Talk Like Or Read
Like Shakespeare Day—celebrating
the birthday of the great playwright and bard on this day in 1564--to celebrate or not to celebrate, that is not even a question!
6. National Cherry Cheesecake
Day—how good can
it be celebrating the day with a good sized slice of cherry cheesecake
pondering out loud the question “To eat or not to eat.”
On this day in:
a. 1516 the Bayerische Reinheitsgebot (regarding the allowed ingredients in beer)
was signed in Ingolstadt.
b. 1910 former President
Theodore Roosevelt in Paris at the Sorbonne gave his “The Man in the Arena”
speech.
c. 1985 in complete ignorance
to one of the basic rules of life—if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it—Coca-Cola scrapped
its original formula and introduced “New Coke” which was a complete disaster forcing
the company to put the original formula back on the market in less than 3
months.
In the game of life be not merely a
spectator, be a participant!: It
is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man
stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit
belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust
and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and
again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does
actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great
devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the
end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at
least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those
cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt.
Great words to live by!
Please enjoy the 140 character poems on events of
interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and join almost
140 growing followers and please follow me) and follow my blogs.
Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs--click on links below.
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com 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
stupidity of Caprock Academy trying to ban a nine year old for shaving her head
to provide support for her 11 year old friend undergoing chemo; Putin pulling
the Moscow broadcast plug on Voice of America; Congressman McAllister on camera
kissing passionately his female staffer; the death of Pastor Fred Phelps,
founder of the Westboro Baptist Church; Obama's "sanctions" compared
to Rolling Thunder 49 years ago; 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.
©April 23, 2014
Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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