this post
a day late
may day
yesterday
a day spent
walking
for the workers
for the immigrants
for all people
for their rights
human rights
in the park
on the streets
to city hall
I feel lucky to be able to say
I’m home again
not everyone can say that tonight.
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‘if folks can’t imagine you as human, all the policy in the world is irrelevant.’
-Ta-Nehisi Coates
*Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates is an American author, journalist, and activist
“and all the world is glad with may.”
john burroughs
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art credit: madison safer
agenda for the last sunday of may:
leave things undone
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“besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
the wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
-lin yutang
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may, 2023, barton nature area, ann arbor, michigan, usa
and after winter folweth grene may.
-geoffrey chaucer
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image credit: zazzle.com
yes it was yesterday, i think they may have over-celebrated and lost count.
the fairy dance
the soft stars are shining,
the moon is alight;
the folk of the forest
are dancing tonight:
o swift and gay
is the song that they sing:
they float and sway
as they dance in a ring.
o seek not to find them,
the wee folk so fair;
they’re shy as the swallow
and swift as the air:
if you come, they are gone
like a snowflake in may:
like a breath, like a sigh,
they vanish away.
-katherine davis (1892-1980)
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image source: peter gray’s vintage art and postcards
“and all the world is glad with may.”
-john burroughs
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art credit: ryan conners
happy cinco de mayo
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image credit: tundracomics.com
may day
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“when april steps aside for may,
like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten;
fresh violets open every day:
to some new bird each hour we listen.”
-lucy larcom
kinder’s hair shows signs of spring.
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‘as full of spirit as the month of may, and as gorgeous as the sun in midsummer. ‘
I didn't have my glasses on.... 