OK, time to mark your calendar with June’s special days ---
Adopt-A-Cat Month American Humane celebrates Adopt-A-Cat Month®
each June – a month that also marks the height of “kitten season,” when
millions of kittens are born and often end up in animal shelters. And, as
it turns out --- I have kittens that will soon need a forever home. Our neighborhood is overrun with feral cats
and in the last 10 days or so, one has had kittens in my shed. She seldom leaves her babies but I’ve managed
to get to them once or twice. There are
4 and they are very cute.
Beautiful in Your
Skin Month It’s the largest organ of
your body and perhaps it is the most wonderful as well. Your skin covers your
entire body and acts as a shield from the elements, it bends with ease, warns
you when something is too hot or too cold, repairs itself when broken, and
plays a huge part in your appearance. There is a lot that contributes to having
healthy skin but feeling beautiful in your skin is more of a reflection of the
mind than the mirror. So, take care if
your skin!
National Oceans Month Covering 71 percent of the Earth’s surface,
the oceans affect everyone from their climate and weather to their food and
agriculture. Get involved with National Oceans Month to raise awareness and
preserve the beauty of Earth’s aquatic environment.
World Naked Bike Ride
Month (Northern Hemisphere) This is an international
clothing-optional bike ride in which participants plan, meet and ride together
en masse on human-powered transport (the vast majority on bicycles, but some on
skateboards and inline skates), to "deliver a vision of a cleaner, safer,
body-positive world."
International
Clothesline Week: 2-9 Was created to
encourage people to save energy by hanging their clothes to dry
instead of using electricity or gas.
National Hermit Week: 13-20 A
time to promote opportunities best pursued quietly and alone such as resting,
reading, writing, thinking, meditating, appreciating, etc.
Watermelon Seed
Spitting Week: 24-30 Select a large, heavy seed. Center the seed on your
tongue. Roll your tongue to make a barrel for your seed bullet. Inhale deeply
through the nose (no one wants to perform the Heimlich). Lean back to achieve
maximum force for propelling the seed. Abandoning all decorum, quickly expel
your gathered breath through your rolled tongue.
Yell
"Fudge" at the Cobras in North America Day: 2 Anywhere north of the Panama Canal. In order
to keep poisonous cobra snakes out of North America, all citizens are asked to
go outdoors at noon local time and yell “fudge!” Fudge makes cobras gag, and
the mere mention of it makes them skeedaddle.
Wonder Woman Day: 3 “At
last, in a world torn by the hatred and wars of men, appears a woman to whom
the problems and feats of men are mere child's play. A woman whose identity is
known to none, but whose sensational feats are outstanding in a fast-moving
world. With a hundred times the agility and strength of our best male athletes
and strongest wrestlers, she appears as though from nowhere to avenge an
injustice or right a wrong! As lovely as Aphrodite- as wise as Athena- with the
speed of mercury and the strength of Hercules - She is known only as Wonder
Woman, but who she is, or whence she came from, nobody knows!”
International Bath
Day: 14 Legend has it that on June
14th (around 260 BC) Greek mathematician, scientist and scholar, Archimedes,
discovered while taking a bath that an object’s volume could be accurately
measured by being submerged in water! Unable to contain his excitement over this
discovery, Archimedes lept out of the bathtub and yelling “Eureka, Eureka!” as
he ran through the streets of Syracuse, Greece.
Litha: 21 or Midsummer is a
celebration of the Summer Solstice by the lighting of bonfires in honor of the sun
which is at its strongest point.
International Fairy
Day: 24 a day for fairy believers
young and old to celebrate the stories, magic, and history of the Fair Folk. "She's
going to die unless we do something. Clap your hands! Clap your hands and say,
'I believe in fairies!'" Peter Pan, JM
Barrie. Are you clapping your
hands now???
Take care
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