Soul Sunday

Good morning. Happy St. Patrick’s Day! (I apologize for not publishing a post yesterday. Distractions abounded!) Sundays are devoted to poetry on the blog. In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I am going to feature some poems by Irish writers. The Irish have a way with melancholic writing like no others . . . .

“The Last Rose of Summer”

’Tis the last rose of summer
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone;
No flower of her kindred,
No rosebud is nigh,
To reflect back her blushes,
To give sigh for sigh …

-Thomas Moore

“The Lost Land: Poems”

This is what language is:
a habitual grief. A turn of speech
for the everyday and ordinary abrasion
of losses such as this:
which hurts
just enough to be a scar
And heals just enough to be a nation.

-Eavan Boland

“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

-W.B. Yeats

Are you passing on love or are you passing on pain? Heal your pain and pass on love.

Here is the question of the day from 3000 Questions About Me:

2552. What’s your favorite cereal? (Especially in honor of today, I am going to say, “Lucky Charms.”)

Cereal Killer

“I just stepped on a corn flake.  Now I’m officially a cereal killer.” – fb.com/MinionQuote

So, the above quote doesn’t necessarily “speak Friday”, but it’s pretty funny and funny “speaks Friday” in a big way!!  It’s FRIDAY!!!  Happy FRIDAY!!!  As seen on the internet, “Friday is the Welcome Wagon to the Weekend!”  This Friday is a great big old Welcome Wagon to a lot of people who have the holiday week off next week.  Enjoy your weekend! Have safe travels to your destinations and look forward to enjoying delicious food with the people you love this week!  Life is good!

New readers, Fridays we keep it surface level.  I discuss three favorite items/songs/apps, etc. that have worked out great for me.  Every Favorite Things Friday I encourage everyone (I see the stats, people. I know that you are out there!) to share the love and make recommendations of your own.

Here are mine:

Awkward Family Photos Calendar – My husband put this calendar in my stocking last Christmas.  It is hilarious.  I hope to see the 2019 version in my stocking this Christmas (hint, hint).  People send their craziest, funniest, most “what were they thinking??” family photographs to this company and they compile it into a daily, rip-off-the-page calendar.  It’s like the paper version of America’s Funniest Videos. It brings a chuckle to me every morning and makes me realize that everyone has a little kookiness in their lives!

Lifestyle Products Amethyst Crystal Water Bottle – I’m almost embarrassed to put this one on the list, but I do LOVE it!  It is a glass water bottle with a giant amethyst crystal poking through the bottle, so when you fill the bottle with water, the crystal is right in the middle of the water.  Disclaimer, I got mine on clearance because I thought it looked incredibly neat.  I’m pretty sure that I would never have paid full price for it, but I’m so happy to have it.  Some people believe that the amethyst positively “charges” the water.  It looks incredibly intriguing and it does make it easier for me to drink all that water that we are supposed to be drinking every day.  You can get these water bottles with all different kinds of crystals and the bottom holding the crystal screws off, so the bottle part is easy to clean.

Wordscapes – This is my new game/app addiction on my phone.  This is what I do when I am sitting on the couch with my guys while they’re watching sports.  This is also what I do in waiting rooms, standing in lines at the store, at long red lights (but try not to because I know that this is dangerous.  If any of my readers are police officers: I’m so sorry, officer.  It won’t happen again.), before I fall asleep, when I want to stop my mind from racing, and when I am feeling competitive because I am surprisingly, highly ranked in Wordscapes’ regular tournaments.  In short, I play it a lot.  If you like word games and “fill in the blank” type crosswords, this is the game for you.

“I understand what’s it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.“
Don Cheadle

Go be thrilled!!!  It’s Friday!!  Love you, readers!!  Thank you!!!