We excel through continuous learning. Let’s make higher education more affordable.
Today’s haiku recognizes National Higher Education Day:
Education improves
our lives and society –
forgive student loans.
For more information see: https://nationaltoday.com/national-higher-education-day/
Today is World Environment Day. The UN has celebrated this day since 1974 to raise awareness to on environmental issues such as marine pollution, human overpopulation, global warming, sustainable consumption and wildlife crime.
Here is today’s haiku:
Eco Day! Let’s not
overshoot capacity.
Hug a tree instead.
For more information see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Environment_Day
Today is Audacity to Hope Day and here is today’s haiku:
Optimistic view
eight-fold path and glory too –
appreciate YOU
Interesting note: Obama’s famous speech and book are titled Audacity of Hope. Find more information about the book and the holiday here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Audacity_of_Hope and https://nationaltoday.com/audacity-to-hope-day/
Today is Love Conquers All Day and the ancient Roman poet penned this universal truth. Here is today’s haiku:
Virgil’s Eclogues verse
cites the most powerful force:
“all shall yield to love.”
For more information on this holiday, see this link: https://nationaltoday.com/love-conquers-all-day/
Today is National Bubba Day. What does that mean to you?
Maybe today’s haiku will help:
Yiddish grandmother
or a favorite brother,
who’s your bubba now?
🙂
What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary?
Today is Dinosaur Day and a good time to remember all species go extinct someday.
Here’s today’s haiku:
Terrible lizard –
do you love to be frightened?
Look: a thesaurus!
🙂
This holiday completes our month of High Coo and reminds us that smiles are attractive and contagious.
Here’s wishing you all a wonderful day and month ahead:
National Smile Day
Smile – frowns disappear
with a genuine full grin
make someone’s day – smile
What shall we celebrate in June?
However, you choose to express your creativity, today is a great day to do so.
Interesting, to me at least, is the ancient Greeks did not have a specific word for creativity. But they did have the word ‘poiein’ ( which means ‘to make’) applied specifically to ‘poiesis’ (‘poetry’) and the ‘poietes’ (‘poet’ or ‘maker’).
Today there are many synonyms for poet including versifier, rhymester, lyricist, sonneteer and troubadour. Do you have a favorite term for poet?
Here’s today’s haiku:
National Creativity Day
using words to share
Beauty, Truth or Love may help
liberate others
Thank you, readers for motivating me with your words.
National Paperclip Day
Invented in 1867, the bent wire paper clip is still used today. Ahhh, something so simple and so useful! So here is today’s haiku:
Curved wire holds secure
without puncturing damage –
like a mother’s arms
Check out the history of the paper clip here: https://www.officemuseum.com/paper_clips.htm
Americans eat over 50 billion hamburgers a year. That’s a lot of beef! This sandwich was made famous when introduced at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. St. Louis is also one of the test markets for the new Impossible (no-meat/all plant-based) burger. So, here is today’s haiku:
HAMBURGER DAY
A ground meat patty
served with bread, cheese and veggies.
How ’bout just veggies?
For more information, check out these links: https://www.kcur.org/history/2021-09-14/st-louis-worlds-fair-1904-ice-cream-hamburger-dr-pepper and https://impossiblefoods.com/products/burger
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