Yay! Another opportunity to share this amazing bit of jazz:
Here’s the full concert if you down widdit…
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Good morning! 
It is Saturday, 1 May 2021
(W17 | D121 | 244 rem)
Today is: 
World Naked Gardening Day 🪴
While it perhaps is a day better suited to our northern hemisphere green-fingered friends, where the weather at this time of the year* might be slightly more conducive to getting your kit off outdoors, there’s no reason why we can’t join in on the World Naked Gardening Day (WNGD) fun. Just use a lot of sunblock please. Especially on the sensitive bits that generally don’t get to see the sun.
WNGD was founded and organized by Mark Storey (consulting editor for Nude & Natural magazine) and permaculturalist Jacob Gabriel, as a project of Body Freedom Collaborative (BFC).
In its early days, Storey had a vision of BFC engaging in "guerrilla pranksterism” such as hopping out of a van or showing up spontaneously in an urban environment and engaging in guerilla gardening.
In the New York Daily News, Storey noted that WNGD is not owned by any one organization. “No particular organization owns World Naked Gardening Day,” Storey said, “and it’s not actually one large gathering of horticulturists in Seattle who strip down and shear some shrubs together.”
While the phenomenon quickly spread internationally, little investment has been made by its founders. Storey said he and Johnson haven’t spent any money or gone to any great lengths to promote World Naked Gardening Day since they initiated it. They helped create a website early on, and then receded into the background. They intended that the idea of “an introduction to clothes freedom through gardening was valuable and would grow organically on its own.”
There’s nothing like getting back to nature to make you feel refreshed and revitalized, and there’s nothing like being naked while gardening to get back to nature.
If you love getting your hands and feet into the fertile soil and enjoying the sight and smell of newly sprouted plants on their journey to becoming beautiful full ground plants, and also enjoy being naked under the warmth of the sun, then World Naked Gardening Day is for you.
In certain countries in the world, there’s an unfortunate tendency to sexualize all nudity, making the natural state of our bodies one that is seen as uncomfortable and shameful to exist in. It is one of the continued taboos of society, that for one to be naked and to show their body, it must be sexualized or that they are seeking sexual gratification.
World Naked Gardening Day seeks to help change that by taking a normal everyday activity, gardening, and mixing it with another perfectly natural thing, being naked. There’s nothing like being out in the sun and soil while helping mother nature grow beautiful things to get us acquainted with the essential things in life.
Why garden naked? First of all, it’s fun! Second, only to swimming, gardening is at the top of the list of family-friendly activities people are most ready to consider doing nude.
Moreover, our culture needs to move toward a healthy sense of both body acceptance and our relation to the natural environment. Gardening naked is not only a simple joy, it reminds us, even if only for those few sunkissed minutes, that we can be honest with who we are as humans and as part of this planet.
While, generally speaking, World Naked Gardening Day isn’t intended to be a public activity, but one you participate in your garden, it was inevitable that the quest to become more comfortable in our bodies would lead to people organizing Naked Gardening Day events.
Some of these happen in one person’s garden; others take place in extensive co-op neighborhood gardens on specially designated days. No matter how you look at it, Naked Gardening Day is a great event that’s bringing people together and freeing us from the confines of our cotton and polyester prisons.
Just get out there in the buff and do some weeding, plant some fresh tomatoes, or tend your flowers.
“When you’re out there with a gentle breeze on you, every last hair on your body feels it. You feel completely connected with the natural world in a way you just can’t in clothes.”
Barbara Pollard of Abbey House Gardens
Follow the #WNGD hashtag on Twitter and Instagram, and share your own creative WNGD images and thoughts 
Have a super Saturday! (And I’m serious about the sunblock!)🪴👍
* In fact, in 2018, the New Zealand Naturist Federation adopted the last weekend in October as World Naked Gardening Day; this date was deemed to be better suited to the climate of the Southern Hemisphere.
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Today is also another of those days where there is a whole host of other observances and celebrations:
International Workers Day
May Day
Therapeutic Massage Awareness Day
Global Love Day
Wildfire Community Preparedness Day
Purebred Dog Day
School Bus Drivers Day
Executive Coaching Day
Mother Goose Day
New Home Owners Day
School Principals’ Day
Join Hands Day
Free Comic Book Day (Delayed for this year to 21 August. #ThanksCorona)
Lei Day
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April Fools was last month…
I do, but other parts, not so much…
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And that kids is how the Venus Fly Trap got its name
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Come on… surely being able to trim your bush in the privacy of your own garden is something all gardeners would want to do? 
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It is Sunday, 2 May 2021
(W17 | D122 | 243 rem) Today, we are 33.3% done with the year. 
Today is: World Laughter Day 
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
World Laughter Day was created in 1998 by Dr. Madan Kataria, founder of the worldwide Laughter Yoga movement. Dr. Kataria, a family doctor in India, was inspired to start the Laughter Yoga movement in part by the facial feedback hypothesis, which postulates that a person’s facial expressions can have an effect on their emotions. The celebration of World Laughter Day is a positive manifestation for world peace and is intended to build up a global consciousness of brotherhood and friendship through laughter. It is most often celebrated by gatherings of people in public places with the sole purpose of laughing. Its popularity has grown exponentially with the Laughter Yoga movement now counting thousands of Laughter Clubs in more than 105 countries.
Everybody knows that laughing feels good, but few realize how valuable these simple tools can be in improving our everyday wellness and wellbeing.
Laughter cannot heal or solve anything, but it can help to heal and dissolve everything. That’s what World Laughter Day is for! It’s a day where people can relieve some stress and laugh. Discover a new happiness workout and learn about what happens during World Laughter Day!
World Laughter Day is an annual event celebrated worldwide to raise awareness about laughter and its many healing benefits,
The day is celebrated by laughter club members, their families and friends in their city like big squares, public parks or auditoriums. Laughter clubs usually have a variety entertainment programs of music, dance and laughter contests. Winners are those with the most infectious, natural and effortless laughter. Laughter club members also participate in a peace marches and carry banners and placards such as “World Peace Through Laughter”. During the march they chant “Ho Ho, Ha-Ha-Ha” and “Very good! Very good! Yay!” clapping and dancing.
Is there any better feeling than a deep-rooted belly laugh? Not only does it help us to connect with those we’re laughing with, but there are a number of health benefits that are associated with laughing as well.
- Produces a general sense of well-being – One of the main benefits associated with laughter is that you’re generally going to feel better! If you laugh a lot, you’re going to be more of a positive person, and this can impact your life in so many different ways.
- The release of endorphins is triggered – Endorphins are the natural painkillers within your body. They are released when you laugh. This can help you to feel good all over while easing chronic pain at the same time.
- Boost T-cells – Laughter can also boost T-cells. These are specialized cells in your immune system, which are simply waiting to be activated. When you laugh, T-cells are brought to life, and they can help you to fight off sickness. So, next time you feel like you have a cold coming on, why not add some giggling and chuckling to your prevention strategy?
- Improve cardiac health – Laughter is an exceptional cardio workout, particularly for anyone who is not able to do other types of physical activity because of illness or injury. It will get your heart pumping, enabling you to burn around a similar amount to the calories you would burn while walking at a slow to moderate pace.
- Work your abs – One of the advantages associated with laughter is that it will tone your abs. The muscles in your tummy begin expanding and contracting when you’re laughing. This is similar to when you exercise your abs intentionally. At the same time, the muscles that are not in use when you are laughing will get the chance to relax. Is there any better way to get a toned stomach than having a good laugh?
- Reduce stress hormone levels – Aside from this, a reduction in your level of stress hormones is another benefit! This helps to cut the stress and anxiety that impacts your body. Moreover, the reduction of stress hormones can cause a higher immune system performance.
- Lowers blood pressure – Last but not least, laughing can lower your blood pressure. This can reduce your risk of a heart attack or a stroke.
In short, laughter is good for your health, brings people closer together, is free and freely available, and is universally understood, regardless of culture and language.
So, go and roflyao, lag jou gat af, and have a great Sunday! Very good! Very good! Yay! 
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LOL!!!
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That’s the spirit!
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Perfection!
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Yes, this is a laughing matter.
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It is Monday, 3 May 2021
(W18 | D123 | 242 rem)
Today is: Paranormal Day 
Seeing is believing, or at least so the old adage goes. But is it? Because despite how tempting it would be to believe that if you can’t see, hear or touch something, it doesn’t exist, there have been thousands upon thousands of people who seem certain that they have in fact witnessed or even come into direct contact with things science just can’t explain and that there is sometimes absolutely no evidence for.
For some tinfoil hat wearing folk, every day is Paranormal Day , but for the rest of us it is an unofficial holiday on 3 May 3. It celebrates and encourages discussion of paranormal activity and investigation.
Each year on Paranormal Day people who believe in paranormal activities are encouraged to get together and share their experiences with each other.
Paranormal is a term used to describe occurrences that can’t be explained by ordinary scientific measures. They are outside the norm. Many words leap to mind when speaking of the paranormal. Ghosts, hauntings, spirit, or poltergeist name a few. However, an extraterrestrial and clairvoyance also fall into the category, too.
Have you ever felt a sense of Deja vu? Some believe the feeling is related to the paranormal. Are strange orbs in the night an apparition or simply a moth catching the light?
Nearly every city and town has a house or location that holds a mystical presence. Whether the history associated with the location or personal experiences, certain places radiate the paranormal. Others need a time of day or year for their mystery to unfold. Even still, it might depend on who spins the tale. A good storyteller can make just about anyone’s spine tingle.
Fittingly enough, the origins of Paranormal Day are a mystery. The most likely reason that this day became Paranormal Day is because Charles Hoy Fort, an influential author and researcher of the paranormal, died on that day in 1932.
Fort is perhaps the best-known collector of paranormal anecdotes, and he is considered by many as the father of modern paranormalism, or the study of the paranormal. Fort compiled at least 40,000 notes on unexplained paranormal experiences.
Reported events that he collected include teleportation (a term Fort is actually credited with coining), poltergeist events, falls of frogs, fishes, and inorganic materials of an amazing range, crop circles, unaccountable noises and explosions, spontaneous combustions, levitation, unidentified flying objects, and mysterious appearances and disappearances, to name but a few.
He is also most likely the first person to explain strange human appearances and disappearances by the hypothesis of alien abduction, an idea that has definitely caught on, with hundreds of such reports being filed every year. Despite the extremely wide variety of these paranormal events, they all have something very important in common: they lack the reproducibility of empirical evidence, and they are not amenable to scientific investigation.
UFOs. Ghosts. Chupacabras. Do they exist? And if not, why have there been so many sightings and close experiences? Paranormal Day is all about trying to answer these questions.
What are some of the paranormal stories that you grew up hearing about? Are there haunted spots in your town? Have you ever had any sort of paranormal experience? Share already!
Go out there and have a as (para)normal as possible Monday friends!
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What about lizard people?
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And spaghetti monsters?
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https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/portals-to-hell
I loved the first season of this show - Portals to hell.
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