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5 Responses to “Happy May Day, Suckers!”

1. 1 gina May 1, 2008 at 10:14 am

   hmm, my Staples calender says that it is Holocaust Remembrance Day….

2. 2 Laurie May 1, 2008 at 3:28 pm

   Really? I just read online that it’s January 27th. Weird. REVISED: Oh no, snap, it’s Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel. Yom Hashoah. Thank god for the interwebs!

3. 3 perrik May 1, 2008 at 4:47 pm

   By some coincidence, iGoogle offered the following as one of today’s Quotes Of The Day selections:

   “Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.” (Oscar Wilde)

4. 4 Miss Priss May 3, 2008 at 5:47 pm

   Happy May Day, sucker!

   Sorry I’m so late. I’m embarrassed to admit it, but all this time, I’ve been sending your May Day greeting to this address: suck_tit@aol.com. Now I see why I keep getting that confounding Delivery Status Notification. Chairman Meow, indeed.

   Here’s your late greeting, Catholic girl (interrupted):

   May is Mary’s month, and I
   Muse at that and wonder why
   Her feasts follow reason,
   Dated due to season –
   Candlemas, Lady Day;
   But the Lady Month, May,
   Why fasten that upon her,
   With a feasting in her honour?

   Ask this of her, the mighty mother;
   Her reply puts forth another
   Question: What is Spring?
   It’s growth in everything –
   Flesh and fleece, fur and feather,
   Grass and greenworld all together.
   Star-eyed strawberry-breasted
   Throstle above her nested

   Cluster of bugle-blue eggs thin
   Forms and warms the life within;
   And bird and blossom swell
   In sod and sheath or shell.
   All things rising, all things sizing
   Mary sees, sympathizing
   With that world of good,
   Natures’s motherhood.

   (from “The May Magnificat”)

   Only quoted in part, of course, but it’s personally my very favorite May description, a subtle and deceptively profound celebration of birth and life and renewal and growth and rebirth and motherhood — made all the more remarkable for the fact that it was written by a very repressed but brilliant Catholic priest. Don’t you just love this time of year, Mrs. Ruettimann?

5. 5 Laurie May 4, 2008 at 2:31 pm

   I love how Mary, the virgin mother, is fêted in this month of glorious birth & rebirth. Just so you know, I’ve changed my email address to eat_shit@gmail.com because I was getting too much spam at the other address.

   Happy almost-cinco-de-mayo!

   xxxooo

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