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September
then the flowers became very wild
because it was early september
and they had nothing to lose
they tossed their colors every
which way over the garden wall
splattering the lawn shoving their
wild orange red rain-disheveled faces
into my window without shame.
~ grace paley
stumbled upon this old ad
for what may have seemed the perfect solution
to the age-old dilemma:
what to choose when caught between the seasons?
hot soup or cold drink?
why not just combine them?
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‘september showed up right on schedule, and lasted a whole month.’
-jenny wingfield, author
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image credit: campbell’s soup company, vintage ad, 1962
“by all these lovely tokens,
september days are here.
with summer’s best of weather,
and autumn’s best of cheer.”
-helen hunt jackson
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art credit: debi hubbs, folk art painting
here we find ourselves in september again, along with lots of babies!
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september is by far the most popular month to be born. it isn’t even a close race. september has 9 out of 10 of the most popular birth dates, with september 9th being the most popular date of all. using my holiday math formula, it’s easy to find a clear correlation between the end of the old year through the ringing in of the new year, and the volume of early fall arrivals.
1 january new year’s eve party = 1 to 1,000,000 september babies
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“my favourite poem is the one that starts ‘thirty days hath september’ because it actually tells you something.” -groucho marx
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art credit: mary evans
I didn't have my glasses on.... 