{"id":2441,"date":"2007-06-29T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:54","slug":"yay-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2441","title":{"rendered":"A “YAY!” for today:"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have always thought it was SO COOL that Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast<\/i> has the 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks<\/a> posts. It’s such a great thing to do, to drop everything on a Sunday and list seven Good Things that have happened during the week. Sometimes it’s a bit of a scramble, but most of the time, the Good Things just flow, which is really nice.<\/p>\n

I have something like that, let’s call it a “YAY!” for today, and my “YAY!” is NOT that the Spice Girls<\/a> are reuniting, although I’m sure that is cause for wild-eyed celebration in some quarters. No, this “YAY!” is a lot more cool than that. The Extended Day Girls are on TV!!!<\/a> Alanah, Alicia, Allandra, Amanda S., Amanda D., Elaine, Jahatu, Samara, Shaianne, Tyla, and their teachers Ms. Shubitz and Ms. Rodriguez are the authors of DEAL WITH IT! Powerful Words from Smart, Young Women<\/a>, and Ms. Shubitz kindly emailed us last night to let me know I can see the girls in action here on CBS News<\/a>!<\/p>\n

YAY!!!! <\/div>\n

The Extended Day Girls<\/a> rock the house!<\/p>\n

The other “YAY!” is that it’s Friday, and not only that, Poetry Friday. Hosted by the martini-riffic Bond-girl at Shaken & Stirred<\/a>, today’s poems run the gamut of themes – summertime heat, holidays, war, cats, salads and more. My contribution is just as eclectic — a beautifully evocative poem of summertime… and the summertime of the past.<\/p>\n

Ground Swell
by Mark Jarman<\/a><\/p>\n

Is nothing real but when I was fifteen,
Going on sixteen, like a corny song?<\/p>\n

Read the rest of this eloquent poem that speaks of writing and memory here<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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