Writing in Snow

Day of Beauty and The Beginning of a New Week

Jamál (Beauty), 18 ‘Aẓamat (Grandeur) 175 B.E. - Sunday, June 3, 2018

It's the beginning of the first full week in June 2018. I have a busy week planned on Monday, June 4, I have a podiatrist appointment at 1:00 P.M., with the Lyft car picking me up at 12:00 P.M. Sometime this afternoon, I need to get all the dirty clothes in the basket because De is going to do laundry on Monday. On Friday, June 8, I'm going to the Baha'i Center to watch a screening of "The Gate: Dawn of the Baha'i Faith" at the Baha'i Center. My writing projects for this week are set and ready to post on "Weekly Goals" . This week I added two reading goals, beside the read and review goal, to the goal to do list.

Goal for June 3-9, 2018
Posted in "Weekly Goals" 

"Invalid Item"  in "Welcome to My Life" 
This week's assignment for "~ The Poet's Place Cafe~" .
Review at least four items per day either under Browse by Genre or Read & Review
Do something listed under Other things I have to do or Poems To Write. The goal is to finish at least one thing under one of those items.
Entry for "I Write in 2018"  Week 23
Read at least three pages in The Tablets of the Lord of Host before going to sleep.
Read articles 6 Common Misconceptions about the Baha’i Faith   and/or another article on BahaiTeachings.org  .
Poem/Essay for "Invalid Item"  Week 43 - Nothing due for week 43.

This morning got off to a good start. I had a chocolate covered doughnut with my first cup of coffee. I posted an entry in "Melting Snow"  "Genetic Kinship" , I posted that entry on "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum" , "Blog City Prompt Forum" . and a link on my Facebook page. I discovered several article on BahaiTeachings.ogr1 is want to read, and I reviewed one poem. Today I'm focusing on reviews, posting poems to "Devotional Poetry"  and "Poem Experiments" , creating a survey,l and reading. I completed almost everything I had to do last week yesterday, and so I have a little time today to relax.

Silence2

The interval
between the axon's transmission
and the dendrite' reception.

The pause
between the blue tinged sky
and the sun's rising.

The space
between the characters
of a word.

poet's Note: ▼

I wrote this sometime in 146 B.E.

It is the day of Beauty. It is the beginning of a new week. It is the first full week of June 2018. There is one more day left in ‘Aẓamat (Grandeur) 175 B.E. At sunset on June 4 the month of Núr (Light) begins. Over the past few months, I've been letting the bad news of the world effect my moods, which isn't good for my physical or spiritual health. Over the next 19 days I'm going to attempt to alleviate this by looking closer at the funny things in life. I don't laugh enough, I've suspected this was true for a long time; however, it I didn't coalesce until I read "Does Your Religion Make You Happy?"3 by David Langness, which is the first in a series of article titled "Religion and Laughter"4

"O Ye that sleep, Awake! O ye heedless ones, Learn wisdom! O Blind, receive your sight! O Deaf, Hear! O Dumb, Speak! O Dead, Arise! Be Happy! Be Happy! Be full of Joy!"

Abdu’l-Baha5

Footnotes
1  http://bahaiteachings.org/
2  I posted this on Poet 999 - A Butterfly Emerges from Her Cocoon
3  http://bahaiteachings.org/religion-make-happy
4  http://bahaiteachings.org/series/religion-and-laughter
5  Abdu’l-Baha in London, pp. 126-127.