Welcome back to the odd and whimsical poetery of the Peeps related to holidaze! Let’s investigate what today is, because we need all the holidaze we can celebrate, right?
Lately, every day seems to be many holidays! Which is good, because we all have our favorites. So I will pick out one or two, and you can click the link above if you’re curious about the rest. This is an Open Thread, so please feel free to add your favorite pomes and photoes and holidaze for today in the Comments!
Today is National Take a Hike Day
This could be healthy!
Walking, and hiking is an excellent way to get exercise, and get into shape. Hikes are distinguished from walks, in that they are taken in the woods, hills, mountains, or somewhere else in a nature setting. Hikes not only give you exercise, they also provide scenic sites and vistas, that are good for relaxation of the mind and soul.
There is some reference to this as National Tell Your Boss to Take a Hike Day. We think it likely evolved out of Take a Hike Day. We have found no factual information whatsoever, on this derivation of Take a Hike Day. We also believe that telling your boss to "take a hike", may not be healthy to your employment situation.
Great selection of nature hikes and related poems at the link just below:
Norway Pass
by Emily Johnston
1980: Mt. St. Helens erupts, incinerating hundreds of square
miles — thick cathedrals of age-old forests and sweet damp and
scurrying — and leaving them an ashen devastation. Days later,
geologists in safety vests helicopter in to the crater’s edge. One
hears a whir, then feels a tap-tap-tap at his back: a hummingbird,
already returned, hoping for nectar from the orange of his vest.
four grams. Emerald green.
[From Her Animals by Emily Johnston, a Washington State Book Award Finalist.]
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