2021-08-27 National Just Because Day

【The Emperor of Ice-Cream (1922)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

             Call the roller of big cigars,

             The muscular one, and bid him whip

             In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.

&nbs

2021-08-27 International Lottery Day

【I See Children As Kites】

Erma Bombeck (1927—1996)

        I see children as kites. You spend years trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you are both breathless... They crash... You patch, comfort, and assure them that someday they will fly.

2021-07-05 National Apple Turnover Day

【The Prairies (1892)】

Walt Whitman (1819—1892)

The prairie-grass dividing, its special odor breathing,

I demand of it the spiritual corresponding,

Demand the most copious and close companionship of men,

Demand the blades to rise of words, acts, beings,

Those of the open atmosphere, coarse, sunlit, fresh, nutri

2021-07-05 National Graham Cracker Day

【One's Self I Sing (1867)】

Walt Whitman (1819—1892)

 One’s-Self I sing, a simple, separate person;

 Yet utter the word Democratic, the word en-Masse.

 Of physiology from top to toe, I sing;

 Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, i