May 9th is
Butterscotch Brownie Day
National Sleepover Day
World Moscato Wine Day
National Lost Sock Memorial Day
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ON THIS DAY: May 8, 2019
May 8th is
Coconut Cream Pie Day
World Ovarian Cancer Day *
Animal Disaster Preparedness Day
World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day *
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ON THIS DAY: May 7, 2019
May 7th is
Beaufort Wind Scale Day
Cystinosis Awareness Day *
Roast Leg of Lamb Day
Cosmopolitan Cocktail Day
National Barrier Awareness Day *
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ON THIS DAY: May 6, 2019
May 6th is
Beverage Day
Crepe Suzette Day
Joseph Brackett Day *
National Nurses Day *
No Homework Day
International No Diet Day *
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TCS: Independent Bookstores – Dreams Built of Wood and Paper
. . . Good Morning!
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Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings.
This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning
a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment.
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You see, bookshops are dreams built of wood and paper.
They are time travel and escape and knowledge and power.
They are, simply put, the best of places.
― Jen Campbell, ‘The Bookshop Book’
ON THIS DAY: May 5, 2019
May 5th is
Cinco de Mayo
Cartoonists’ Day *
Enchilada Day
International Midwives Day *
Revenge of the Fifth Day *
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ON THIS DAY: May 4, 2019
May 4th is
Bird Day *
World Give Day *
Candied Orange Peel Day
Respect for Chickens Day *
Intergalactic Star Wars Day *
International Firefighters Day *
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ON THIS DAY: May 3, 2019
May 3rd is
SUN Day *
Lumpy Rug Day *
National Textiles Day *
Chocolate Custard Day
Garden Meditation Day
All Things Considered Day *
Two Different Colored Shoes Day *
UN World Press Freedom Day *
Prevent Teen & Unplanned Pregnancy Day *
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Word Cloud: EVER-AFTER (Redux)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD
Next week I’ll be back, hard at work, but my husband and I are on Part 36 of our Never-Ending Honeymoon for a few more days.
I leave for you two poems. I wrote the first poem about the red Chinese wedding clothes I wore for our nuptials. The second poem is Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, which may be the greatest poem about True Love ever written.
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Red Silk
by Nona Blyth Cloud
– for all the creators of beauty
whose names we will never know
You hang
in the hall closet of my childhood,
. . . talisman of awe and mystery,
Journey to China made only in dreams . . .
Because of you
. . . the other side of the world is real,
and maps
. . . are pictures of places people live.
How many tiny women
. . .threaded silk,
. . . . . . sewed tiny stitches,
made you beautiful
. . . . . . with flowers, birds, symbols?
How many days
. . . . . . working
. . . until you and the night and their fingers
. . . . . . became one darkness?
Were they old
. . . . . . with blurring vision,
. . . or needle-eyed apprentices?
How many lifetimes
. . . embroidered
. . . . . . into births, deaths, marriages?
Flower centers so intricate
. . . each stitch
. . . . . . a risk of blindness –
Our century
. . . . . . forbids it –
No more blind women
. . . no bound, crippled feet.
We have gained so much . . .
. . . . . . What have we lost?
. . . Too soon,
. . . . . . no red silk sails from China
. . . untouched by machine . . .
Flowers for beauty
. . . Phoenix for long life, good fortune
from five thousand years of women’s hands:
. . . Ancient witnesses to our altered ritual
The garments of my wedding day,
. . . borrowed from another time
. . . . . . and half a world away.
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ON THIS DAY: May 2, 2019
May 2nd is
Chocolate Truffle Day
Life Insurance Day *
World Tuna Day
Robert’s Rules of Order Day *
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