Good evening, welcome back to our series sharing Unique Holidays: June 8th, 2021. Take a look at the Holidays and let me know which one you most would like to celebrate and why.
Its funny tomorrow is Best Friends Day and on Friday I’m having lunch with my best friend from second grade. Looks like I need to pick up a card to give Debbie celebrating our friends.
Best Friend Day (BFF Day) is a time to enjoy and appreciate your good old buddy, your pal. and its a day to honor and cherish the relationship. Can you do that today?
If you’re lucky, you have a best friend and if your real lucky, you have a number of best friends. Best friends are very special people. You spend countless hours with your best friend going to events and activities, or just hanging out. You share secrets, hopes, dreams, aspirations, and disappointments with your best friend.
Some folks say you can only have one best friend. I disagree. You can have a couple best friends at the same time, or several over time. Friends come and go for a variety of reasons, even BFFs are sometimes not forever.
It’s the result of many things, including moving, changing schools or jobs, and more. We hope that you are lucky enough to have a number of best friends over the years.
Celebrate Best Friend Day by:
- Spending time with your best friend
- Making efforts to find a best friend (if you don’t currently have one)
- Giving a small gift or card to your best friend
- Calling an old best friend that you’ve lost touch with
Name Your Poison Day is a day to make a choice. The term “Name Your Poison” is commonly used to suggest that you select among a number of options.
This term has a negative connotation and the origin of this term is unknown. But, at the time, it probably referred to some unhappy choice. The saying is commonly used when asking someone what type of Alcoholic drink they want.
But, Name Your Poison Day is also used to refer to any choice of options, good or bad. For example, “Name Your Poison” may refer to selecting an Ice Cream flavor, a dessert choice, etc.
Celebrate today by making a decision….. Name Your Poison.
Oceans are immensely important and vital to humans. Oceans feeds us, producing vast amounts of Fish and Seafood. We sail the Ocean, to bring people and cargo to and from places around the world.
There’s recreational boating, too and we swim in the Ocean. Oceans are so important to us, that it is only fitting that today… is World Ocean Day. A special global day to celebrate our Oceans, and to work towards maintaining and improving their health and cleanliness. As the health of our Oceans goes, so goes the health of the entire planet.
Oceans comprise about 71% of the surface of the Earth. With the immense size of the Ocean, you would think its very hard to pollute our Oceans. Well, we happen to be doing a pretty good job polluting them.
As if Global Warming (man-made) was damaging our Oceans enough, we humans are exacting a terrible toll on the health of Oceans, adding immeasurable amounts of Pollutants each and every year.
Did You Know? Were still dumping trash into the Ocean. Isn’t that so sad.
Use this day, to become more knowledgeable about how were Polluting the Oceans with litter of all kinds, from just about any source you can imagine. Tsunamis devastate Coastal areas and drag Pollutants into the sea.
A Tsunami in Japan resulted in tons of trash washing up on the U.S. West Coast Beaches. Oil is leaked from oil rigs, ships, and boats. Plastics, which take many years to break down, of all kinds find their way into our Oceans and Seas. Plastics in particular, can have a devastating effect on Marine life.
A clean and healthy Ocean, translates to healthy Marine life. This results in safe and healthy Seafood that you and I consume.
#Homeschool question: Can you name the five oceans of the world?
- Atlantic
- Pacific – the largest
- Indian
- Antarctic
- Arctic
What can you do on World Ocean Day, to improve the health of our Oceans?
The History and Origin of World Ocean Day:
World Ocean Day was first proposed by the Canadian government at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. In 2008, a United Nations resolution made this holiday official.
Since 2004, the organization “Ocean Project”, has strived to advance Ocean conservation. On World Ocean Day, this organization works with schools, museums, aquariums, and other groups, to promote and coordinate educational programs about ocean health.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
