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High Coo – June 8 – National Best Friends Day

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First started in 1935 by the US Congress, National Best Friends Day for appreciating friends and spending quality time with them has been a great way to improve your life. Or, if you don’t currently have a best friend then take deliberate action to find one. How? Perhaps, today’s haiku will help:

Decrease loneliness –

be a best friend to others –

friendship is healthy.

Note: recent psychology studies indicate that loneliness increased across the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic. See these sites for more information on the studies and today’s holiday cures:

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2022/05/covid-19-increase-loneliness;

https://www.ourfabriq.com/article/importance-of-friendships-your-health-well-being

High Coo – June 5 – World Environment Day

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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

High Coo – June 4 – Audacity to Hope Day

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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/

High Coo – May 30 – National Creativity Day

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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.