the 2002 calendardown in the dirt scars publications january 2002 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 Bank Holiay, UK new year’s day New Year Holiday, Armenia, emancipation proclamation, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Bank Holiday, Scotland 1863 S. Korea Tom Thumb's Birthday 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Epiphany Twelfth Day, Sweden Carl Sandburg born, 1878 Eastern Orthodox Christmas, Armenia, Ethopia James Plimpton created “guidable Man Watcher's Week parlour skates” with an India rub- ber ball. The first roller rink start- Anniversary of first Balloon Alexander Hamilton's Girst woman elected to the ed today in 1862 Elvis Presley’s Birthday Flight Clean Off Your Desk Day Birthday Senate, 1932 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Adults Day Humanitarian Day Gulf War began Bald Eagle Appreciation Edgar Allen Poe’s birthday, Horatio Alger’s Birthday Days National Nothing Day Ben Franklin's Birthday Winnie the Pooh Day 1805 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Martin Luther National Handwriting Day Carpenter James Marshall, King Jr.’s First woman to receive a worked in a California mill Birthday medical degree in America and found a piece of gold - Australia Day, Australia observed John Hancock's Birthday starting the gold rush today Republic Day, India National Hugging Day National Pie Day in1848 National School Nurse Day 27 28 29 30 31 January is National Fiber Month. National Oatmeal Month, National Prune Breakfast Month, National Soup Month, March of Dimes Month, Cosmetology Month, National Noodle Month, Eyecare Month, Hobby Month Chinese New Year celebra- tions Thomas Crapper Day National Kazoo Day National Puzzle Day National Popcorn Day Simon Perchik written by Racine 03-10-2001 03:35 AM ET (US) Freedom and Strength Pilosophically speaking, freedom is strength: it is the power-- it is a virtue-- and ultimately a supreme goal. For if you are free, then you are strong. The question then is how does a human become free? There may be many different theories but most agree that to be free is to only accept what is in our control. For if you put weight into something that is not yours, then you will be disappointed i.e. not free. Freedom is being able to make your own choices-- to be able to control what you can-- and not try to control what is not yours. And what is yours? The will to choose and not to choose--- opinion. This is called free will. To put desires on things that are not in your control will bring on slavery to such things. All external things are out of the contol of the free will-- your parents, government, even your body. These things are not yours to control. By choices and opinions, I mean to do what you think is right according to "reason." -- this is yours and no one elses. this is the beginnings of freedom, strength and tranquility. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday february 20021 2 February is: Black History Month, Human Relations Month, Canned Food Month, Creative Romance Month, Great American Pies Month, Whale Awareness Month, National Snack Food Month, National Cherry Month, Heart Month, Return Shopping carts to the Supermarket Month Alice Rosenbaum’s Birthday, 1905, in St. Petersburg National Freedom Day Ground Hog Day 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Constitution Day, Mexico Nornam Rockwell’s Birthday USO Day Weatherman’s Day Waitingi Day, New Zealand Charles Dickens’ Birthday James Dean’s Birthday 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 National Women and Girls in Sports Day Lincoln’s Thomas Edison’s Birthday, Birthday Valentine’s Day Susan B. Anthony Day Lunar New Year, China, 1847 NAACPFounded, 1905 Race Relations Day Faschingsdienstag, Ladies Home Journal First Hong Kong National Foundation Day Georgia Day, in Georgia Ash Wednesday Jack Benny’s Birthday Germany Published in 1883 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Malcom X Assassinated, 1965 Shaheed Day, Bangladesh President’s Day First Telephone Directory George Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Lt. Col. Glenn first astronaut published today in 1878, Washington’s National PTA Day Birthday in orbit, 1962 with 50 people in it Birthday 24 25 26 27 28 Banner’s Day, Mexico Independence Day, Estonia William “Buffalo Bill” Henry Wadsworth Hadassah Day Cody’s Birthday Longfellow’s Birthday, 1807 image by Mark Graham march 2002 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 march is: National Women's History Month, National Nutrition Month, Independence Movement National Peanut Month, National Red Cross Month, Poetry Month Day, S. Korea Peace Corps Program initi- ated by John F. Kennedy, 1961 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Independence Day, Ghana Kasmir Pulaski Day, Illinois Brooklyn born Clarence First woman to practice Byrdseye developed a before the Supreme Court method of quickly freezing Alexander Graham Bell's foods and marketed them International Working Birthday for the first time today in Women’s Day, China National Anthem Day 1930 International Women’s Day 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Anniversary of the Revolution of 1848, Girl Scouts Day Mothering Sunday (UK) Hungary Black Press Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Ortodox Lent Birthday of Benito Juarez, International Day for the St. Patrick’s Day begins St. Joseph's Day, Spain Vernal Equinox Mexico Elimination od Racism 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Palm Sunday Independence Day, 31 Bangladesh Independence Day, Greece Ruhio Day (Hawaii) First Day of Maryland Day (in Robert Frost’s Birthday, Passover Easter Sunday Maryland) 1874 Maundy Thursday, Spain Good Friday Battling The Senses Burton R. Hoffmann Have I become jaded because I have --seen too much? --heard too much? --felt too much? --tastedtoo much? --sniffed too much? TASTE ANYONE? So much in our society Has become cheap and tawdry. Whatever happened to taste? Jim Dewitt Donnie Strickland but I was really sincere at the time. Born of new fear And is that what it comes down to? and Does sincerity add truth to our lives regardless resident within the past pain, as to how wrong it eventually turns out to be? I wait and in my surroundings I writhe But I was sincere at the time. and remain faceless to society's mirrors. Everything burns like caustic poison Its simple... and resurfaces as something well meant. I want epiphanies. Its Shakespearean for a rose by another name. But epiphanies anger the substandard soul, Its simple... instead turning each moment into wraiths I want paradoxes. that will escape all healing comprehension. No wait, I have a surplus of puzzles I prefer for the oracles to remain silent: and a cavalcade of conundrums. idolatry is low and different. Silence and vacancy... Its what we do to each other that bothers me so. I just want reassurance. I want what you have. Too difficult to get over not having. Our appetites and hungers are deviant and distracting. I could elaborate but I won't. Donnie Strickland Here is something else to placate: I bleed for numerable causes, too many to name, april 2002 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 First female mayor elected in the U.S., 1887 Arbor Day, S. Korea Chakri Memorial Day, april fools day Women Business Owners Martin Luther King Jr. Ch'ing Ming Festival, China, Thailand Easter Monday Day Assassinated, 1968 Hong Kong North Pole Discovery Day 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 The first professional base- ball team - the Cincinnati Stockings, opening game 1886 Holocaust Rememberance Daylight Savings Time Day Bataan and Corrigidor Day, Thomas Jefferson’s Birthday Begins Buddah's Birthday Phillipines Izahal Memorial Day, Israel 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Independence Day, Israel Bangla Naba Barsha (New Year), Bangladesh Give all you earned money First American Abolition to the U.S. government day, Society, 1995 I mean, Income Taxes Due Independence Day, Patriots Day (in ME and Lincoln Assassinated 1865 Birthday of Mahavir, India Astronomy Day Zimbabwe MA) 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Professional Secretary’s Day Armenian Genocide Anzac Day, Australia, New Memorial Day, Armenia Zealand Tiradentes Day, Brazil Orthodox Palm Sunday, Liberation Day, Italy Queen Elizabeth’s Birthday Earth Day Greece Revolution Day, Portugal 28 29 30 General Prayer Day, April is: Denmark National Frozen Food Month, Latino Month, National Barbecue Month, National Humor Month, Orthodox Good Friday, Arbor Day National Duckling Month, Keep America Beautiful Month, National Garden Month Greece Children’s Day, Mexico Lag B'omer MayDay Eve, Finland Greenery Day, Japan Queens Day, Netherlands image by S. Mead Prizes Carol Es He gets the blue ribbon Takes the cake Elke Collins All the luck [email protected] All that crap. Suffolk, UK It should have been you. from the Add-A-Poem Guestbook All these cramps in the chest, 2-second memories, Getting Under Your Skin scarce He flirts with words and places his smilies exteriorization Wouldn't hurt anyone being so loving All at your expense. Genuine, of course, kind and caring It isn't fair Values friendship and trust - who's doubting? How you pet my hair He says he's missed out on life by being too nice & he gets the prize of my soul Not facing reality being so painfully shy When it ends, He's so vulnerable, cute and polite Can it be Catching up is what he's desperately needing Will I be alright? Don't we all - and I feel for him Will I find you with Relating to my own regrets - and I fall for him A diamond, Gazing at his varnished pic dancing in a mineral spring Letting his flattering phrases seep in & a lovely life Oh I know he's so damn smooth and charming with a love more deserved? And I'm aware he's seducing While he strolls in years But as soon as he knows he's got under my skin Arcades of phase, He sends his IMs to another thrill.