Tuesday's Truths WK 69: "Dreary Days and Mondays..."

STORIES IN "WORDS IN OUR BEAK ARE SET IN MY GARDEN"

As of now, Verizon has fixed the Internet snafus that have been occurring, so, I'm back to my posting here on Blogger, and I'm just in time for week seventy-one of my Tuesday's Truths series.

I come to it with this thought: a well known pop song, Rainy Days and Mondays, which was sung by the late Karen Carpenter is on my mind, because yesterday was a very dreary Monday in NYC.

Part of the lyrics in Carpenter's song state, "... Hangin' around Nothin' to do but frown. Rainy days and Mondays always get me down..."

While it wasn't rainy in NYC yesterday, it certainly was dreary (and still is today), but I couldn't afford to let dreary days and Mondays get me down, or let any day get me down for that matter; and that is this  truth for my seventy-first posting in this series!

March 2nd 2017

One hundred and thirteen years ago today, the author/illustrator, Dr. Seuss was born on this day of March the second. I have appreciated many of his writings as well as his illustrations, and I have written about his work here on Blogger, as well as on Facebook, and tumblr. Last year in honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday, I posted the same clip that is atop today's entry. Within last year's blog post, I also included some cool facts re how Seuss came to the use of rhyme within his works, as well as how he got his first book, And To Think It Saw it On Mulberry Street published. If you'd like to refer to that particular entry, please click here.

According to Holiday Insights (HI), other well known persons born on March 2nd include: Joel Roberts Poinsett (b 1779). (He wa)s an American Ambassador to Mexico brought Poinsettias to America; Desi Arnaz (b 1917). (He was most known as) "Ricky Ricardo" on "I Love Lucy;" Mikhail Gorbachev, (b 1931). (He was the) leader of USSR."  HI points out that Karen Carpenter, the singer, was also born on this day in 1950.

Rainy Days and Mondays in the Garden

It is Monday. And it is raining. And, if you are of a certain age, you may recall the combination of "rainy days and Mondays prompted a song that the pop singer, Karen Carpenter, made famous, known as, well, Rainy Days and Mondays.