A woman is like a tea bag
– you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962)
NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY
Daily Quote: October 8
“Sculptural form is not the imitation of natural form
any more than poetry is the imitation of natural conversation . . .
While a piece of sculpture may contain visual forms with which we are acquainted by daily experience, it is essentially a design worked out by means of the juxtaposition of masses in space, just as poetry is a design wrought by the sounds of words in time.”
~ Elizabeth Wyn Wood (October 8, 1903 – January 27, 1966)
Yom Kippur
“Day of Atonement”
Daily Quote: September 26
So the lover must struggle for words.
~ T. S. Eliot (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965)
Love Note Day
Write a short love note to anyone you love.
A small “I love you” note in your child’s lunch.
Daily Quote: September 24
It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before. F. Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940)
National Punctuation Day
Daily Quote: September 18
The true measure of a man
is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
~ Samuel Johnson (September 18, 1709 – December 13, 1784)
Respect Day – September 18
This shouldn’t be reserved for just one day.
Respect is something we should be doing everyday.
- Listen
- Encourage
- Congratulate
- Be Helpful
- Say Thank you
Daily Quote: September 16
Everybody wants to go to Heaven,
but no one wants to die to get there!
~ B. B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015)
Collect Rocks Day
Celebrate today by collecting, painting or studying rocks.
Daily Quote: September 3
What the people are within, the buildings express without.
~ Louis Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924)
Skyscraper Day
Celebration of buildings over 138′ tall.
The Beehive may not be a skyscraper, but the idea is the same. Several functional layers placed on top of each other into a single structure.
Daily Quote: August 23
Daily Quote: August 21
The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way
as to do the least damage or destruction to them,
and he leaves them whole,
undamaged and fresh,
just as he found them.
~ Saint Francis de Sales (August 21, 1567 – December 28, 1622)
