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“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves- alone we find it with another.” Thomas Merton
14 Valentine’s Day Poems, Quotes & Tips
LOVE: Valentine’s Day and more… ✿♡✿Happy Valentine’s Day!✿♡✿ February is a month choc-a-bloc with important events and celebrations that bring people together in so many ways; there is Valentine’s Day, Chinese Lunar New Year (Year of the Golden Ox), Health Health Month, Black History Month, and Presidents’ Day. Each of them commemorates a special cultural tie that reminds us of our heritage, relationships, and values. The current pandemic has put a dent in the usual plans we typically have and so it will be wise to consider alternative ideas that could become new and improved takes on our yearly rituals. Take this time to kick back a bit and reflect on what matters to you and your loved ones and how to achieve it safely and legally. Below, I have shared poems, quotes, and tips to help us celebrate all that love brings our way. Come back for the rest…
1) First and foremost, if you are single, Send yourself a Valentine’s Day card and a bouquet of your favorite flowers.
2) If you have a partner, send each other a special delivery of flowers and a favorite/cherished item
3) Surprise a few folks by sending secret Valentine’s Day cards, flowers, or chocolates to struggling friends and neighbors you know could use some hugs and love
4) Make a list of all the things you LOVE about YOU. Type it up and Frame it on your wall.
5) Make a donation to your local Foodbank, favorite Charity, and friend/neighbor in need.
READ: Happy Valentine’s Day: A Haiku And Three Wishes
Motivation Mondays: Happy Valentine’s Day
On Love: Valentine’s Day Wishes…
Motivation Mondays: LOVE Is… #HappyValentinesDay
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. Elizabeth Bowen
Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine. Christina Rossetti
Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way. Aberjhani
Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert Heinlein
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. A. A. Milne
A Great Need By Hafiz
Out
Of a great need
We are all holding hands
And climbing.
Not loving is a letting go.
Listen,
The terrain around here
Is
Far too
Dangerous
For
That.
It’s all I have to bring today By Emily Dickinson
It’s all I have to bring today—
This, and my heart beside—
This, and my heart, and all the fields—
And all the meadows wide—
Be sure you count—should I forget
Someone the sum could tell—
This, and my heart, and all the Bees
Which in the Clover dwell.
Untitled By Rumi
I swear, since seeing Your face,
the whole world is fraud and fantasy
The garden is bewildered as to what is leaf
or blossom. The distracted birds
can’t distinguish the birdseed from the snare.
A house of love with no limits,
a presence more beautiful than venus or the moon,
a beauty whose image fills the mirror of the heart.
Close close all night By Elizabeth Bishop
Close, close all night
the lovers keep.
They turn together
in their sleep,
Close as two papers
in a book
that read each other
in the dark.
Each knows all
the other knows,
learnt by heart
from head to toes.
First Love by John Clare
I ne’er was struck before that hour
With love so sudden and so sweet,
Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower
And stole my heart away complete.
My face turned pale as deadly pale,
My legs refused to walk away,
And when she looked, what could I ail?
My life and all seemed turned to clay.
And then my blood rushed to my face
And took my eyesight quite away,
The trees and bushes round the place
Seemed midnight at noonday.
I could not see a single thing,
Words from my eyes did start—
They spoke as chords do from the string,
And blood burnt round my heart.
Are flowers the winter’s choice?
Is love’s bed always snow?
She seemed to hear my silent voice,
Not love’s appeals to know.
I never saw so sweet a face
As that I stood before.
My heart has left its dwelling-place
And can return no more.
“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” Rumi
14 Valentine’s Day Poems, Quotes & Tips
What are you doing for Valentine’s Day? This is the mantra we will hear and repeat till the 14th comes and goes. For those of you who have great romantic plans with loved ones, I say go out and enjoy yourself. Carry that feeling over to the rest of the year and to others outside of your inner circle of family and friends. To those of you who don’t celebrate it, for whatever reason, I say bravo. I hope it means you have conquered the commercialization of this formidable emotion we call LOVE. I hope it means your loved ones know, implicitly, that you are the love god/goddess of your household; you don’t need one day of the year to prove it. On the other hand, if you aren’t celebrating because you don’t believe in love or you think it’s overrated, think again! Did you miss the memo on Self-Love? Love truly begins with us and how well we care fr ourselves.
6) Invite your closest friends on your favorite video conferencing platform to enjoy some virtual comfort foods and gift exchanges and call it a Just Because Of Our Love Party.
7) Treat yourself and your family to a special meal and have each person share at least one thing they love about everyone in the family.
8) Have each family member write down all the accolades and positive feedback they shared about each other, and use the information to create individualized Valentine’s Day cards for each family member.
9) Listen to your favorite love songs and create a song list on Spotify or Apple
10) Search for top Love and Romance Movies of the last decade and Have a Movie-watching-marathon
READ: Motivation Mondays: Beyond Valentine’s Day
Motivation 2020: Heart to Heart
Motivation Mondays: Valentine’s Day Tips
Reflections: What Really Matters…?
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal
A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others. Frank Morgan
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever. Audre Lorde
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee, and thou art enough. George Edward Moore
I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. W. H. Auden
[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by e.e. cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
The Privileged Lovers By Rumi
The moon has become a dancer
at this festival of love.
This dance of light,
This sacred blessing,
This divine love,
beckons us
to a world beyond
only lovers can see
with their eyes of fiery passion.
They are the chosen ones
who have surrendered.
Once they were particles of light
now they are the radiant sun.
They have left behind
the world of deceitful games.
They are the privileged lovers
who create a new world
with their eyes of fiery passion.
The Price By Henry Fielding
Can there on earth, my Celia, be
A price I would not pay for thee?
Yes, one dear precious tear of thine
Should not be shed to make thee mine.
In Former Days We’d Both Agree By Bhartṛhari
In former days we’d both agree
That you were me and I was you.
What has now happened to us two,
That you are you, and I am me?
The details for Motivation Mondays are below. Join in! The themes for JAN – FEB 2021 are:
JAN
01/01 – 01 New Years Day, 04 World Braille Day, 06 Epiphany
01/10 – 11 Human Trafficking Awareness Day, 14 Orthodox New Year, 16 Religious Freedom Day,
01/17 – 18 Martin Luther King Jr Day, 20 Inauguration Day, 21 National Hug Day, 22 National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 23 National Pie Day
01/24 – 24 International Day of Education, 27 Commemoration of Victims of the Holocaust, 28 Data Privacy Day,
01/31 – 31 National Hot Chocolate Day
National Mentoring Month, National Glaucoma Awareness, Cervical Health Awareness Month, National Blood Donor Month, Birth Defects Prevention Month
FEB
02/01 – 02, Groundhog Day, 04 World Cancer Day, 05, National Wear Red Day, 06, International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM.
02/07 – 07 Superbowl, 11 International Day of Women/Girls in Science, 11/12 Chinese Lunar New Year of the Ox begins, 13 Galentine Day
02/14 – 14 Valentine’s Day, 15 Presidents Day, 16 Mardi Gras, 17 AsH Wednesday, 20 NAACP Awards, 20 World Day of Social Justice
02/21 – 26 Purim starts
02/28 – 28 Golden Globes
Black History Month, American Heart Month
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“When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Motivation Mondays: MLK Day – I Have A Dream Speech
In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr Day,(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968, ) I’ve decided to share both the video and script of his famous speech at the Lincoln Memorial on that fateful day in 1963. It is remarkable that the refrain “I Have a Dream” was not part of the planned speech but I am grateful that he was so inspired to utter those famous four words. Enjoy the memories and read up on other posts I have shared over the years on Dr. King. May his spirit and message continue to resonate with us.
In his iconic speech at the Lincoln Memorial for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, King urged America to “make real the promises of democracy.” King synthesized portions of his earlier speeches to capture both the necessity for change and the potential for hope in American society.
MLK SPEECH: I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. [applause]
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves [Audience:] (Yeah) who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. (Hmm)
But one hundred years later (All right), the Negro still is not free. (My Lord, Yeah) One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. (Hmm) One hundred years later (All right), the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later (My Lord) [applause], the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. (Yes, yes) And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense, we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence (Yeah), they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men (My Lord), would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. (My Lord) Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked insufficient funds. [enthusiastic applause] (My Lord, Lead on, Speech, speech)
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. (My Lord) [laughter] (No, no) We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. (Sure enough) And so we’ve come to cash this check (Yes), a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom (Yes) and the security of justice. (Yes Lord) [enthusiastic applause]
We have also come to this hallowed spot (My Lord) to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. (Mhm) This is no time (My Lord) to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. [applause] (Yes, Speak on it!) Now is the time (Yes it is) to make real the promises of democracy. (My Lord) Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time [applause] to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time (Yes) [applause] (Now) to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent (Yes) will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. (My Lord) 1963 is not an end, but a beginning. (Yes) And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. [enthusiastic applause] There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
READ:- Motivation Mondays: Silence Is Betrayal – #MLKDAY
Motivation Mondays: Reflections on #MLKDAY 2019
Motivation Mondays: Walk in the Light #MLKDay 2018
Motivation Mondays: Why Does #MLKDAY Matter? 2017
Martin Luther King, Jr. at Columbia | Columbia Magazine
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“And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King – I Have A Dream Speech – August 28, 1963
“I Have a Dream,” Address Delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Author:
King, Martin Luther, Jr. (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
Date: August 28, 1963
Location: Washington, D.C.
Genre: Audio Speech
Topic: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963
Audio: Listen to Audio
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MLK SPEECH CONTD: But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: in the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. (My Lord, No, no, no, no) [applause] We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. (My Lord) Again and again (No, no), we must rise to the majestic heights (Yes) of meeting physical force with soul force. (My Lord) The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people (Hmm), for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny [sustained applause], and they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” (Never) We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. (Yes) We can never be satisfied [applause] as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. [applause] We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. (Yes) We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating for whites only. [applause] (Yes, Hallelujah) We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. (Yeah, That’s right, Let’s go) [applause] No, no, we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters (Yes) and righteousness like a mighty stream. [applause] (Let’s go, Tell it)
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. (My Lord) Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. (My Lord, That’s right) Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution (Yeah, Yes) and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith (Hmm) that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi (Yeah), go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities (Yes), knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. (Yes) Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. (My Lord)
READ:- Motivation Mondays: I Have A Dream – #MLKDay 2016
Motivation Mondays: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Most Inspired Quotes 2015
Weekly Photo Challenge: What Does Humanity Mean? 2014
The details for Motivation Mondays are below. Join in! The themes for DEC 2020 – JAN 2021 are:
12/01 – 01 Giving Tuesday, World AIDS Day, 02 Int’l. Day for Abolition of Slavery, 03 Int’l. Day of Persons with Disabilities, 05 International Volunteer Day, National Repeal Day
12/06 – 06 St Nicholas Day, 07 Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, Int’l. Civil Aviation Day, 10 Hanukkah (Start), Human Rights Day, 12 International Day of Neutrality, Int’l. Universal Health Coverage Day
12/13 – 13 National Day Of The Horse, 15 Bill of Rights Day, 17 Wright Brothers Day, Nat’l. Maple Syrup Day 18 International Migrants Day
12/20 – 20 International Human Solidarity Day, 21 Start of Winter (Winter Solstice), 25 Christmas, 26 Boxing Day, Start of Kwanzaa,
12/27 – 27 St Johns Day, 31 New Year’s eve
National Pie Day, National Day of Giving – #GivingTuesday, Rosa Parks Day, National Repeal Day, St. Nicholas Day, National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, Human Rights Day, Chanukah Begins, National App Day, National Salesperson Day, National Day Of The Horse, Bill of Rights Day, National Maple Syrup Day, National Twin Day, Winter Solstice, National Re-Gifting Day, Christmas, Pledge of Allegiance Day, National Hero Day, National Champagne Day, New Years Eve, Universal Hour of Peace
01/01 – 01 New Years Day,
01/10 – TBD
01/17 – TBD
01/24 – TBD
01/31 – TBD
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“Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking of you this holiday season!” T.A. Barron
MOTIVATION 2020: 31 GRATITUDE TIPS FOR THE HOLIDAYS!
Blessed is the season that engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. Hamilton Wright Mabie
May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility. Mary Anne Radmacher
You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. Maya Angelou
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand, and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. Edith Sitwell
Happy Holiday Season! HAPPY HANUKKAH! MERRY CHRISTMAS/KWANZAA! What a great gift to learn that after 9+ months of battling a global Covid-19 pandemic, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. The vaccines have arrived and if we can all exercise some patience and follow the standard CDC guidelines of wearing a mask, social distancing, and washing our hands regularly, we will enter 2021 with hope and a grateful heart. Typically, this is a time of great activity; gifting, giving/receiving, and worrying about all sorts of things and the pandemic has added an unpredictable twist to the mix. We are in a season of holiday celebrations and special events, and we must make the best of it for ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities. We had the start of Hanukkah on the 10th, Winter Solstice on the 21st, Christmas Day will arrive on the 25th, and Kwanzaa on the 26th and so much to be grateful for. This year, we even had the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn a rare event that according to NASA hasn’t happened in nearly 400 years since the planets passed this close to each other in the sky, and nearly 800 years since the alignment of Saturn and Jupiter occurred at night. WoW! What memories of 2020 will you carry with you into 2021? Which ones will you leave behind?
2020 has been a challenging year of unprecedented firsts, frustrations, and moments of grace. It is time to take stock of all the painful and pleasurable events that have brought us to the end of 2020; some great, some good, and some just sad/awful. Regardless of what kind of year this has been for us, it is important to take time to reflect, express our gratitude, and stay motivated to start 2021 on a stronger and more positive note. We can start by creating our own list of gratitude tips that kept us going during the darker, scarier months of Covid19, and by recognizing that the current surge in cases and loss of life demand that we become vigilant and considerate of others. I have culled a list of 33 gratitude tips, most of them shared by my pastor, Pastor Buddy Cremeans of Northway Church, that we can hold onto as we wrap up the year.
1. Gratitude makes us happier
2. Gratitude makes people like us
3. Gratitude makes us healthier
4. Gratitude boosts our career
5. Gratitude strengthens our positive emotions
6. Gratitude develops our personality
7. Gratitude makes us more optimistic
8. gratitude makes us kinder
9. Gratitude increases our spirituality
10. Gratitude makes us less self-centered
11. Gratitude increases our self-esteem
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Motivation Mondays: DECEMBER WISHES
Motivation Mondays: Happy Holiday Wishes
Motivation Mondays: Enjoyment of Life
Motivation Mondays: Cherish Christmas & Holidays
And soon will the holidays come;
Oh, ’twill be so funny, I’ve plenty of money,
I’ll buy me a sword and a drum. “Thus said little Harry, unwilling to tarry,
Impatient from school to depart;
But we shall discover, this holiday lover
Knew little what was in his heart. For when on returning, he gave up his learning,
Away from his sums and his books,
Though playthings surrounded, and sweetmeats abounded,
Chagrin still appear’d in his looks. Though first, they delighted, his toys were now slighted,
And thrown away out of his sight;
He spent every morning in stretching and yawning,
Yet went to bed weary at night. He had not that treasure which really makes pleasure,
(A secret discover’d by few).
You’ll take it for granted, more playthings he wanted;
Oh, naught was something to do. We must have employment to give us enjoyment
And pass the time cheerfully away;
And study and reading give pleasure, exceeding
The pleasures of toys and of play.To school now returningto study and learning
With eagerness Harry applied;
He felt no aversion to books or exertion,
Nor yet for the holidays sigh’d. via famouspoetsandpoems.com
“The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing others’ loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of the holidays.” W. C. Jones
MOTIVATION 2020: 31 GRATITUDE TIPS FOR THE HOLIDAYS!
It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. Mother Theresa
Holidays – any holiday – are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together. Lidia Bastianich
It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal and that every path may lead to peace. Agnes M. Pharo
Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money. Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. Oprah Winfrey
What stays constant for you during the holiday season? Despite the ravages of the pandemic, the holiday season is a time of reckoning and beckoning. We stop and review the events of the year by facing hard facts while preparing to celebrate the beckoning festivities with loved ones. I often observe a mood shift in people; folks seem a tad more hopeful, cheerful, and happy about the impending holidays. This year is different because of the loss of many lives from Covid19. Over 2000+ lives are being lost each day in the USA, and that translates to many families who will spend this holiday season mourning. While there is some excitement in the air about the holidays, we must remember to share our gratitude for life by helping other families in ways we can.
Share your gratitude and goodwill this season: If we could package the excitement by sharing some of it with struggling families and putting some in reserve for the coming year, we’d all have a positive boost in both our energy levels and our spirit. Of course, all of this depends on our attitude and our feelings of gratitude. Instead of counting all the ways the pandemic unraveled our lives, we can spend our time creating new and positive memories to help us wrap up the year. While we are at it, we can dig up any precious, miraculous moments that gave us hope in the human condition this year… If we look closely, we will find them. Create your list of good things that you are grateful for this year. As the year wraps up, ask yourself: What am I grateful for this year?
12. Gratitude improves your sleep
13. Gratitude keeps us away from the doctor.
14. Gratitude lets us live longer.
15. Gratitude increases our energy levels.
16. Gratitude makes us more likely to exercise
17. Gratitude helps us bounce back
18. Gratitude makes us feel good
19. Gratitude makes our memories happier
20. Gratitude reduces our feelings of envy
21 Gratitude helps us relax.
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Motivation Mondays: The Holiday Season
Weekly Photo Challenge: A PATH
Weekly Photo Challenge: NOW – Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!
Musings: Merry Christmas Wishes…
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows;–
The happy days unclouded to their close;
The sudden joys that out of darkness start
As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart
Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!
White as the gleam of a receding sail,
White as a cloud that floats and fades in air,
White as the whitest lily on a stream,
These tender memories are;–a fairy tale
Of some enchanted land, we know not where,
But lovely as a landscape in a dream. via famouspoetsnadpoems.com
The details for Motivation Mondays are below. Join in! The themes for OCT – NOV 2020 are:
11/01 – 01 All Saints Day, Daylight Savings Ends, 02 All Soul’s Day, 03 Election Day, 05 Guy Fawkes
11/08 – 08 National STEM Day, 10 Science Day for Peace & Development, 11 Veterans Day, 13 World Kindness Day
11/15 – 15 National Philanthropy Day, 16 20 Universal Children’s Day
11/22 – 25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 26 Thanksgiving Day, 27 Black Friday
11/29 – 30 Cyber Monday
National Diabetes Month, Lung Cancer Awareness Month, National Adoption Month, National Native American Heritage, Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience, National Veterans and Military Families, National Family Caregivers, National American History and Founders Month
12/01 – 01 Giving Tuesday, World AIDS Day, 02 Int’l. Day for Abolition of Slavery, 03 Int’l. Day of Persons with Disabilities, 05 International Volunteer Day, National Repeal Day
12/06 – 06 St Nicholas Day, 07 Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, Int’l. Civil Aviation Day, 10 Hanukkah (Start), Human Rights Day, 12 International Day of Neutrality, Int’l. Universal Health Coverage Day
12/13 – 13 National Day Of The Horse, 15 Bill of Rights Day, 17 Wright Brothers Day, Nat’l. Maple Syrup Day 18 International Migrants Day
12/20 – 20 International Human Solidarity Day, 21 Start of Winter (Winter Solstice), 25 Christmas, 26 Boxing Day, Start of Kwanzaa,
12/27 – 27 St Johns Day, 31 New Year’s eve
National Pie Day, National Day of Giving – #GivingTuesday, Rosa Parks Day, National Repeal Day, St. Nicholas Day, National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, Human Rights Day, Chanukah Begins, National App Day, National Salesperson Day, National Day Of The Horse, Bill of Rights Day, National Maple Syrup Day, National Twin Day, Winter Solstice, National Re-Gifting Day, Christmas, Pledge of Allegiance Day, National Hero Day, National Champagne Day, New Years Eve, Universal Hour of Peace
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