May 1, 2018

MAY DAY ...oh, lovely MAY DAY

Oh, this joyous month of May!

As we end the 'number one' day;

Robins dream in pleasing shades,

'Morrow's doves are mournful-made.

Does your soul not leap and sing?

As you gaze upon this spring?

Greens are here and there, once more.

Paradise has cracked her door!

                                                                  written by LPG

P.S. Happy Birthday Dad ... in the world beyond this one. (You would have been 89 today).

'NORTHERNERS' WAIT JUST TOO D*** LONG

Literary types recognize who it was [who], years prior, opined that 'April' is the cruelest month. 

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

T.S. Eliot

We all have a reward center in our brain, the latter located in a tiny area known as the nucleus accumbens. Moreover, this reward center is left in a state of "near starvation" when springtime weather takes a very long time to get here!

WHEN April prepares her green traffic light,

the world thinks

 Go.     

Christopher Morley

...so I can totally understand why a vacation paradise is the perfect RX for many of us!

It helps keep the nucleus accumbens very happy!

WE WANT TO GO BACK!

NOT as LION, NOT as LAMB... MARCH departs

A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period –
When March is scarcely here

A Color stands abroad
On Solitary Fields
That Science cannot overtake
But Human Nature feels.

It waits upon the Lawn,
It shows the furthest Tree
Upon the furthest Slope you know
It almost speaks to you.

Then as Horizons step
Or Noons report away
Without the Formula of sound
It passes and we stay –

A quality of loss
Affecting our Content
As Trade had suddenly encroached
Upon a Sacrament.

-- Emily Dickinson

OPINIONS HAVE WEIGHT...

...and turning "8"

is just great !!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY,

JIM-DOG!!!

XOX,

Grandparents and uncles