Counting Blessings

For wildflowers in bloom

For sweet perfume of June

For the gift of home and family

For the day Thou hast made

For Thy love that won’t fade

For the blessing of life, I thank Thee

Live for the Love of it,

Sasha A. Palmer (aka Happy)

Commonplace, or One for the Ages

I wonder if ages away

I’ll yearn for this commonplace day—

the day of to-do-lists undone

the day long forgotten, long gone—

the day I spent watching the sky

and clouds that kept drifting as I

would sway in the hammock and you

would strum a tune “I lava you,”

play fetch with our pup with a toy…

The day you were still just a boy.

Live for the Love of it,

Sasha A. Palmer (aka Happy)

"A Freshman's Guide to Quarantine"

Hi,
How are you doing? Need a quick pick-me-up?

Art by Danny Palmer (my Mother's Day present)

Maryland Historical Society's blog reads, “Letters from the Homefront” account is part of our new initiative, Collecting in Quarantine. Personal accounts are some of the most powerful tools we have in understanding historic events in Maryland. Letters, diaries, and photographs of important moments in Maryland history, including the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Spanish flu of 1918 and the Annapolis yellow fever epidemics of 1793 and 1800, help to provide glimpses of life during these times. Now, MdHS is calling on Marylanders to send their personal stories of how the pandemic is impacting their lives."

One of the Marylanders, who happens to be my son, answered the call, and his story "A Freshman's Guide to Quarantine" is up! It's actually a snippet from an essay he wrote on dealing with "Coronacation." Very proud of you, Danny.

Check out "A Freshman's Guide to Quarantine."

To quote the author, "Stay safe, stay strong, and care for each other."


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

Palmer's Garden

our friend Janet made this sign for us

the master and mistress of the garden
(no animals were harmed during the photo session)

two gardens in one:
David's veggies & Sasha's flowers :)

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

2014 April PAD Challenge: Day 20

I'm continuing my haiku story based on Poetic Asides Poem-A-Day prompts.

Today's prompt-family-is here.

Twenty days, twenty haiku. 



beyond the welkin

a sleepy angel awakes

off to work wings brushed

the commute is quick
one giant leap for mankind
for angel one step 

the task is simple
persuade men to be happy
that's what angels do

since the creation
happiness has been men's foe
men prefer ruin 

men long for passion
harmony unsettles them
men would rather burn

men inhale cities
drink beneath the rural moon
on the airplane wings 

ever amateur
created in God's image
hopelessly human 

torment their lovers
dance themselves to destruction
ever lonely men 

finding no refuge
men cry when they see the Pope
vagabond pilgrims 

empires rise and fall
look back foresee the future
humans do not change 

men bend their beliefs
divide sex and sentiment
still believe in love 

strolls through central park
wild quarrels starting over 
beautiful and damned

men battle their beasts
walk along the precipice
all the sad young men

if i were God i
dancers and storytellers
always reasoning 

love is all there is
still men crave bitter in sweet
never satisfied

men beat on borne back
ceaselessly into the past
silent tombstones speak 

lost generation
paradigmatic writings
jazz age any age 

winter dreams wear off
the prickly dust of late spring
freshness of lilacs 

pink floating dresses
pink babies in pink bonnets
it all starts anew 

a tight fellowship
flappers and philosophers
a curious case



To be continued tomorrow...

Sasha A. Palmer