Homemade Bread Day
Lewis & Clark Reached the Pacific in 1805
World Peace Day
Take a Hike Day
Coping With Uncertainty Day
Now I want some warm, buttered homemade bread! But thank goodness for Bread Machines!
“HIKING”
by Ed Matlack
The overwhelming power of Nature looses the soul from the concrete bastian
Replacing glass-perforated walls with giants of green and bark
Underfoot the cement and asphalt turns into sweet-smelling earth and leaf-rot
A racing stream instead of speeding traffic lends muffled background
Snow mantled boughs exchanged for bleak hard stone—moss for rust
Little known or appreciated solace is found in this haven a few minutes from the core
Lifes dreaded and hum-drum buzz-saw of existence is belittled by a sequence of wonders
Never repeating itself, Nature provides an unending panorama of fool-proof structures
All weather buffeted, the young and old alike bear up under seasonal changes
A quality of serenity little broken by storms - even then, only an adjustment
For the betterment of mankind, a close look at this phenomena would provide an arch of comfort
Beneath tired feet lies the soothing balm of peace...
William Shakespeare
SONNET 115
These lines that I before have writ do lie,
Even those that said I could not love you dearer:
Yet then my judgment knew no reason why
My most full flame should afterwards burn clearer.
But reckoning time, whose million’d accidents
Creep in ‘twixt vows and change decrees of kings,
Tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharp’st intents,
Divert strong minds to the course of altering things;
Alas, why, fearing of time's tyranny,
Might I not then say ‘Now I love you best,’
When I was certain o'er incertainty,
Crowning the present, doubting of the rest?
Love is a babe; then might I not say so,
To give full growth to that which still doth grow?
Very nice celebrations today....I just couldn’t come out and play today...LOL~~~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmGTmtTBlvs&feature=related
Ray Charles..”Hit The Road, Jack”
Happy Take A Hike Day