May 31st is

Save Your Hearing Day
National Macaroon Day
Necrotizing Fasciitis Awareness Day*
Speak in Complete Sentences Day
World No-Tobacco Day *
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Save Your Hearing Day
National Macaroon Day
Necrotizing Fasciitis Awareness Day*
Speak in Complete Sentences Day
World No-Tobacco Day *
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by NONA BLYTH CLOUD
“Now is the month of maying” says the old song by Thomas Morley. Our month of maying is drawing to a close, but we have explored far more than spring romance.
Many of these end-of-May poets have taken darker turns, some because of illness or alcohol. Even Ralph Waldo Emerson seems darker in his poetry than his essays.
So we must look a littler harder for the gleams of light.

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The last twenty years were good for practically everybody
save the dead. But maybe for them as well.
Maybe the Almighty Himself has turned a bit bourgeois
and uses a credit card. For otherwise time’s passage
makes no sense. Hence memories, recollections,
values, deportment. One hopes one hasn’t
spent one’s mother or father or both, or a handful of friends entirely
as they cease to hound one’s dreams. One’s dreams,
unlike the city, become less populous
the older one gets. That’s why the eternal rest
cancels analysis. The last twenty years were good
for practically everybody and constituted
the afterlife for the dead. Its quality could be questioned
but not its duration. The dead, one assumes, would not
mind attaining a homeless status, and sleep in archways
or watch pregnant submarines returning
to their native pen after a worldwide journey
without destroying life on earth, without
even a proper flag to hoist.
– 1992
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Hole in My Bucket Day

Loomis Day *
Mint Julep Day

Water a Flower Day
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Biscuit Day
Coq Au Vin Day
Learn About Composting Day
Paperclip Day *
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World Digestive Health Day
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers *
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Amnesty International Day *
Menstrual Hygiene Day *
National Brisket Day
Sierra Club Day *
Hamburger Day
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Paper Airplane Day
Blueberry Cheesecake Day

World Lindy Hop Day
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Towel Day *
National Wine Day
National Tap Dance Day *
National Brown-Bag It Day

International Missing Children’s Day *
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Escargot Day
International Tiara Day
National Scavenger Hunt Day
World Schizophrenia Day *
Aviation Maintenance Technician Day *
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