Once in a great while, I run out of weighty educational matters to opine on (thankfully) and find my mind wandering. On a whim I decided to see what kind of special holidays are being celebrated this weekend. I was reminded that today is the first day of autumn and so with this in mind I invite you to attend the Corrales Harvest Festival this weekend. I was also amused to discover that tomorrow, September 24 we celebrate two delightfully obscure holidays:
· National Bluebird of Happiness Day
· National Punctuation Day
I don’t know much about National Bluebird of Happiness Day but I am delighted that someone has seen fit to honor punctuation marks. The website for the 8th Annual National Punctuation Day http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/, describes it as “a celebration of the lowly commas, correctly used quotation marks, and the proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the ever-mysterious ellipsis”. So may this first official weekend of autumn be filled with a celebration of commas and semicolons and may you find “Life is sweet, tender and complete when you find the bluebird of happiness.” (Bluebird of Happiness- Words by Edward Heyman and Harry Parr Davies / Music by Sandor Harmati / Art Mooney & His Orchestra – 1948).
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