Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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beladona Memorial Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
A comment was made in passing about April being National Poetry Month. That startled me -- I didn't know that! Apparently it was designated such back in 1996 and was designed to emulate the success of Februray being National Black History month. Totally off my radar -- so I went out looking for a resource that would tell me what I should be looking for this month and found What's Happening at http://www.librarysupportstaff.com/4observing.html as well as the usual Wikipedia information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April and it would appear that in addition to hosting poetry, April is:
Sexual Assualt Awareness month -- that one was just added 04.01.10 so I don't feel as bad for not realizing that
Autism Awareness month -- the Autism Society claims to have been celebrating this since 1970; over forty years and I had never heard of it!
National Kite month -- this makes little sense, isn't March supposed to be the windy one?
National Frog month -- the frogs have their own day too! Please mark April 29th on your calendar and make sure that you schedule time to learn about this little critter...
National Garden month -- wouldn't this make more sense if it was May? "April showers bring May flowers" and all that... Who wants to go out and dig in the dirt in the rain?
Financial Literacy month -- now this one used to impact me because C&F [my old community bank where I worked for 12 years] used to encourage us to get involved with local schools , but I had forgotten it was April
California Earthquake Preparedness month
National Humor month
National Mathmatics Education month -- well I guess financial literacy does require a certain amount of mathematical expertise as well as common sense?
Zoo and Acquarium month
There are a LOT more -- mosey on over to http://www.brownielocks.com/april.html if you have time and take a look. I am often surprised when someone will say something about the day being special [well except for it being my unbirthday]. I am not the only one, so here are some things being celebrated on this 97th day of the year:
Ugadi -- happy New Year! After Holi, which I thought was a really fun celebration, I have decided that I seriously need to pay more attention to India
World Health Day -- declared by the World Health Organization and first celebrated back in 1950. Did you know each year had a theme? Me neither. This year's is Anti-microbial resistance: no action today, no cure tomorrow
ASPCA day and International Beaver day -- stealing the frog's limelight?
I have to admit that I really like the sound of No Housework day
Sometimes we just get caught up in the daily grind and we forget that life is what happens each minute, neh? There is a reason to celebrate each day when you come right down to it because the present is all we really have....
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