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1. JoB
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   I suppose it's a bit much to expect singing and dancing in the streets
   because labor has come together to ensure themselves a decent working conditions and a living wage...

   one of the reasons our government is in so much debt right now is that it forgot that by protecting it's workers it protected it's own income...

   but a few May flowers
   and remembrance of those who fought the fight
   so that we might become complacent are in order.

   when i was a kid we placed May baskets on the doorsteps of our elderly..
   rang the bell and ran to hide and watch them open the door.
   Even the grumpiest old farts smiled.

   some moms even nestled chocolate in that bouquet:)

   i miss some of those old traditions...
   especially now when i could benefit from them.

   that one is a good reminder that celebrating the socialism we have been taught to sneer at isn't the only function of May Day.
   there has always been much more to our celebration of May day than marching in the streets.

   It's about community..
   coming together for the common good
   a concept that i sincerely pray hasn't been lost in America

   Posted 1 year ago #         

2. DP
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   It does bring back memories, doesn't it?
   We'll get back there again someday.

   Promise.

   

   Bless you, JoB!

   Posted 1 year ago #         

3. anonyme
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   Lovely picture DP, and lovely post Jo. I hope we get there, too. Preferably before I'm dead.

   I remember when we used to dance around the maypole at my elementary school. Kind of interesting, considering that it's a pagan ritual. Guess we weren't quite so paranoid about such things in those days.

   Posted 1 year ago #         

4. JanS
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   to make the world a little brighter..check out the Admiral Viewpoint...it's been bombed, yarn style....very festive and pretty....:)

   Posted 1 year ago #         

5. ghar72
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   Funny you posted this JoB. I told my 3 year old this morning that we were going to pick some of our tulips and deliver them to our neighbors. In typical 3 yr old fashion he said he didn't want to give all our flowers away! Grump. Then we got busy cleaning up the yard and taking advantage of the weather. The boy with the memory said at dinner, Hey why didn't we deliver flowers today? So we'll get on that tomorrow...a belated May Day celebration. I think our neighbors won't mind it being a day late. Thanks for posting this reminder! I loved doing that as a kid.

   Posted 1 year ago #         

6. Maisy
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   I am so glad that others remember the may day tradition of leaving flowers for neighbors and hiding to see their reaction! my daughter and i did just that this afternoon... neighbors were delighted but had not heard of that tradition : )

   Posted 1 year ago #         

7. Rod Clark
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   A couple of weeks ago, Seasol posters started appearing on light poles here and there. This evening curiosity got the better of me and I typed their address in a browser. It's interesting stuff.

   http://seasol.org

   Posted 1 year ago #         

8. JoB
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   Rod..

   thanks for the link.
   it is very interesting.

   i think i want to know more.

   ghar72 and Maisy...

   i am tickled to learn that someone is still carrying on the tradition... it's one i have always liked.

   today i cleared out my strawberry bed and took the excess to a neighbor..

   they smiled over the plants..
   but i am betting they will grin over the berries.

   Posted 1 year ago #         

9. waynster
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   hmm I could be wrong on this wasn't the may pole and song about the dead from the plague years in Europe....?

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10. anonyme
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    No Waynster, that was "ring around the rosies". The rosies were the ringed sores that erupted from bubonic plague in the 17th century. The posies were bunches of flowers people kept in their pockets in the erroneous belief that they would ward off the disease; they also helped mask the stench of death. "Ashes, ashes..." - incinerated corpses, and "all fall down" - self-explanatory. Aren't nursery rhymes sweet?

    Posted 1 year ago #         

11. herongrrrl
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    Yep, the symbolism of the May Pole is a lot more, uh, festive than anything to do with the plague! Remember the old verse, "Hooray, hooray for the first of May..."

    And that tradition is still alive and well. There was a huge may pole dance at Woodland Park on Sunday afternoon, easily 200+ people present.

    Posted 1 year ago #         

12. waynster
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    Thank you I knew that......not!! I thought that was wrong sucks getting older memory shot again lol

    Posted 1 year ago #         

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