All Purls. No Swine.
Technically, I missed it. In 2024, the first day of Spring came yesterday--a day early--on Tuesday, March 19 (blame the leap year. And the almost-pneumonia.) But it's arrived. Someone apparently forgot to tell the gods of the Weather Channel, though. While we've had several days in the 60s, and a few in the 70s over… Continue reading Happy (Roughly) First Day of Spring!
Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Ne la miseria--Dante Alighieri, The Inferno It's been translated six ways from Sunday over the years. A few examples: Oh! how grievous to relate Past joys, and tread again the paths of fate--tr. Henry Boyd, 1802 There is no greater pain than to recall a happy… Continue reading Unlike Francesca, I Always Remember the Happy Hours with Gladness
Isn't it so unfortunate that we've become so used to the current tendency to politicize the days, weeks, and months of the calendar to the point where it’s almost impossible to escape the continual onslaught of SJW causes thrust in our collective faces through cards, jingles, ads, sports events, and media coverage of one sort… Continue reading Happy “Happiness Happens Day!”
I have long deplored the current unfortunate tendency to politicize the days, weeks, and months of the calendar to the point where it’s almost impossible to escape the continual onslaught of SJW causes thrust in our collective faces through cards, jingles, ads, sports events, and media coverage of one sort or another. While many of… Continue reading Happy Happiness Day!
Gotta say, there were a few times, this past winter, which was hard, cold, snowy, and icy to an extent I’d almost forgotten winter could be, when I was a bit worried. But it’s here: https://youtu.be/goAo5dC8P1s Note: The United Nations General Assembly (barf) has designated March 20 as its “International Day of Happiness.” So today’s… Continue reading Happy First Day of Spring!