Valentino Day Italian-American actor Rudolph Valentino was admired as the “Great Lover” of the 1920s. A documentary tribute to Valentino The “Latin Lover” and His Enemies Ride the Wind Day There are so many ways to observe this day.  Most of them I am too chicken to do!  Ha!  Sky Diving, Wind Surfing, Wind Sailing, Kite Flying, Hot Air Balloon, what else?  Any of those intrigue you? Have any of those been on your bucket list?  Maybe today is the day to either do it or set up a day to do it!  

17 years ago I spent this day laboring to bring my sweet redheaded beauty, Bella, into the world and our lives. Our family hasn't been the same since!  What a great 17 years it has been so far. She is her name over and over and growing to be more and more like it.  She is joy and fun in out lives.  Happiest birthday my sweet Bella, you have my heart!  Licorice Day Licorice Around the World The Real Information on Licorice Before it was a candy it was used for medicinal purposes, and still is  Licorice: The History of the Candy Walk on your Wild Side Day What's the wildest thing you wanted to do but haven't? As long as it is legal, go for it today! :) Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day Cooked bread and cheese is an ancient food, according to food historians, popular across the world in many cultures; evidence indicates that in the U.S., the modern version of the grilled cheese sandwich originated in the 1920s when inexpensive sliced bread and American cheese...

So this is a Gratitude Attitude that is focused on taking something that makes me grumble and complain and finding a reason to be grateful for it.  (That's called making some lemonade people.) I really hate the wind.  And today it is bad. It is cold, harsh, unrelenting. Oh I can't stand it. BUT it provides me the perfect opportunity to turn that complaint into gratitude.  So I did the first thing I could think of. I Googled "what does wind do for us" and here's what I discovered.  Wind can cool me off on a hot day (as long as the wind itself isn't hot...oh wait...I'm supposed to be positive), it provides energy that in turn creates electricity, it makes the leaves on trees sing a song, wind can blow away pollution, a Chinook wind can melt blizzard snows and usher in warmer weather.  That's about all I can come up with, turns out Google's entries weren't all that helpful to me.  But I like the song trees sing with the wind as their conductor ...