"I'm thankful..."

"I'm thankful for dependable perennials."

 -- Janet Martin

Happy Birthday, Friend!
Wishing you the blessings of life's constants: family, friends, faith, hope, 
and love.

Though annuals adorn earth's face,

their charm cannot compare to grace

of trusty flowers that appear--

no matter what--year after year.

In health, in sickness, sorrow, joy

they're hope to every girl and boy,

they grow like faith with passing hours,

like love they bloom -- those trusty flowers.

Let life be filled with things that last,

that keep us anchored, hold us fast.

Let once again a hymn be sung 

to good old things -- forever young.

Live for the Love of it,

Sasha A. Palmer (aka Happy)

"GEMINI" for Janet

A very happy birthday to my dear cyber friend Janet-the June girl of Another Porch. 

A wikem from me to you :)

Hooray for Janet!

Frederic Leighton's "Flaming June"

GEMINI 

"...due to the precession of the equinoxes, June begins with the sun in the astrological sign of Gemini..." (Wikipedia) 

She's flaming June, she's you, the fleeting youth
wrapped in the gauze of time, a lucid dream,
the waking orange sun, reposing truth,
she's all that you may see, all things that seem
to be within your grasp, an ancient tune
forever young, she's you, she's flaming June. 

have a wonderful day, my friend

Live for the Love of it,
Sasha A. Palmer (aka Happy)

Weekly Wikems. Doubleheader. Progress. Pi.

Hi.

It's Thursday again. Time for your weekly wikems.

Wikems = Wikipedia poems. 

• Each Thursday (usually around 8a.m. Eastern) I post a link to a Wikipedia article, a quote from it and my wikem inspired by that quote.
• I invite you to explore the article, searching for a quote that clicks with you. (You are free to use "my" Wiki quote if it happens to be the one.)  
• Once you've found your quote, use it as an epigraph, write your wikem and post a link to it in the comments below.  (You are welcome to post your wikem directly in the comments if you prefer.)

 Let's play!

Somehow Math dominated my mind last week.

First we had a psychological discussion with Janet J on the vices and virtues of technology: here and here.

Then of course we had pi day.

This time I give you two wiki links. You may choose either of them or use both like I did.

Interestingly, Wikipedia has not figured out yet how to define “progress” in general terms.  It talks about different aspects of progress instead, devoting a separate article to each of them.

So, in fact you’ll be getting way more than two links.  You do the Math J

Here you go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi

Explore. Search. Find. Write.

Here's my wikem:

 APPLE π HOPES

"...an irrational number, π...never ends and never settles into a permanent repeating pattern. The digits appear to be randomly distributed..." 

"Alternative conceptions exist, such as the cyclic theory of eternal return..."

We long to see our life as pi –

Irrational, it can deny

All rules and patterns, can extend

In randomness without an end.

But secretly we also yearn

For that old theory of return,

The cyclic pattern that’s to blame

For all the change that stays the same.

Caught contradictions in between

We bake sweet lies on March 14.



Thank you for reading my wikem. 
Look forward to yours.


Live for the Love of it,
Sasha A. Palmer (a.k.a. "Happy")