A different take today
on Becky B’s #januarylight squares Challenge
Highlight of 1960 World Series
Tag: 1960
Pittsburgh Sculpture: Joy of Life by Virgil Cantini, 1960
Saturday afternoon I drove home from a happy baby shower on the South Side.
The late autumn light on this sculpture was gorgeous. Although I drive by this sculpture frequently, I don’t stop.
I parked, got out of the car, listened to the fountain and felt the spray as the wind was gusting.
The circle of figures holding one another in the circle seemed particularly beautiful this afternoon. When I came home and looked it up, I was reminded of the sculpture’s title-
Joy of Life.
The Weekly Photo Challenge: Victory
Poem in Your Pocket Day – April 30th
My sister wrote to remind me that April 30th (tomorrow) is Poem in Your Pocket Day.
Don’t have a poem?
You can download one from the American Academy of Poets site right here
When I taught in a K-8 school, I had a basket of poems for the office counter with a sign, TAKE ONE.
I read a poem a day over the PA for the K-2 morning announcements for the month of April, National Poetry Month.
Sometimes the poem taker would put back the poem they selected in search of one that spoke to them.
Tonight I printed out The Pasture by Robert Frost. Put it in my denim blazer pocket.
When I was in the third grade (1960) I had to memorize and recite it at the end of the year “stepping up” ceremony.
Mary is going to have one of our mother’s favorite- Walt Whitman’s Elegy- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
What poem will you have in your pocket to read and share?
JFK- Man of the Sixties
My father went to JFK’s inauguration- took a train to DC in the bitter, cold weather. This button is one of the souvenirs he brought back home.
In 1963 I was in sixth grade. I remember it like yesterday .
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5:30 AM edit
My son Mark just sent me the following photos of my father’s memorabilia he has at his home in Ohio. I am adding them to the post now.
He is looking for the photos he has of the grandchildren at the Arlington gravesite.
Mark had all of his grandfather’s JFK memorabilia
put into a frame.
