Sunday, March 25, 2018

Happy March 25th!

Wishing you a very merry March the 25th! What's so great about March 25th? Well, just look at all the cool holidays today:
  • International Waffle Day (my favorite breakfast food--I celebrated this morning already!)
  • Tolkien Reading Day (my favorite author!) #TolkienReadingDay 
  • International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (A solemn reminder)
  • National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy (Yay! Democracy!)
  • National Medal of Honor Day (Thank you for your valor servicemembers)
  • Neighbor Day (Hi neighbors! You're awesome!)
  • Lobster Newburg Day (I have no idea what this is...sounds like an East Coast thing)
  • Pecan Day for some reason
You can check out more about these holidays here: https://www.checkiday.com/

However, they failed to honor one man on this day. I'd like this to be International Shel Silverstein Day on March 25th mostly because of his poem Merry...


If you're not familiar with Shel Silverstein, (and I would question where you've been hiding if you're not), he's the author of Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Light in the Attic, Falling Up, The Giving Tree, and The Missing Piece. People of all ages have identified with his works, and they've stood the test of time.

His stories and poems (self-illustrated) are usually silly, but some can be serious (anyone else feel sorry for the tree in The Giving Tree?). I couldn't get enough of these in middle school. I must have checked them out at the library at least 10 times. Plus, there were a drawings with butts, and as everyone knows, butts are hilarious when you're 11.



After Shel's death in 1999, a few books were released posthumously, including a book of poems called Every Thing on It. Now, we finally get to what this post has to do with adoption. Thanks for sticking with me.

In this book, there's a poem called Jake Says... that I found very beautiful, and you may to:

 

I love this. What a beautiful poem. I couldn't find any Etsy folks making digital prints of this, but if any of you are graphic design wizards, I bet you could make this in to something lovely for your adopted child's bedroom.

That's all for today! So, happy International Shel Silverstein Day! Now, back to what I was doing:




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