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Bird’s Eye Views
Tag Archives: weekends
Good Monday Morning!
I mowed the yard on Friday. I ran errands and completed a few household projects on Saturday. I took a walk and enjoyed an easy meditation yesterday. Orange has already had his cat nibbles and my coffee is ready for … Continue reading
Posted in cultural highlights, Meanderings, philosophy
Tagged gratitude, mindfulness, Mondays, weekdays, weekends
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Maligned Mondays
One of my old bosses once complained to the us at a staff meeting that the worst part of his Mondays is hearing his employees complain about Mondays. I understood his point but I also understood the back-handed, cynical basis … Continue reading
Posted in cultural highlights, Meanderings
Tagged Monday-Hate, Mondays, weekends, workweek
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The Last Weekend
I hope you’re enjoying this final weekend of 2020. It’s the one many of us have been anticipating with baited breath. Perhaps we will get a well-deserved respite from this insane year. But wait, the next weekend, the first one … Continue reading
Posted in cultural highlights, Meanderings
Tagged enjoyment, recreation, weekdays, weekends, work, working weekends
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Happy Blue Monday
We’re not even one complete week into 2019 and already, we have a second holiday to celebrate. Today is Blue Monday, the first Monday after New Year’s Day. A public relations company (of course) planned the first Blue Monday for … Continue reading
Posted in cultural highlights, History, Meanderings
Tagged Blue Monday, Henry Ford, industrial revolution, Labor Unions, Mondays, play, weekends, work
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Happy Monday
Since retirement, I still sometimes have an American style Monday. Of course I always have calendar Mondays; but now most of them are pleasant. This early morning has been inauspicious. It looks like it will be an American style Monday. … Continue reading
Posted in cultural highlights, Meanderings
Tagged attitude, Mondays, weekdays, weekends
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Five Day Weeks In The USSR
While struggling to read through an old Soviet Russian language children’s textbook the other day, I found a short mention of a curious Soviet social experiment that triggered my curiosity. It was a reconfiguration of the calendar into weeks of … Continue reading
Posted in Controversy, History, Politics, religion
Tagged calendars, Joseph Stalin, months, Soviet Eternal Calendar, USSR, weekends, weeks, years
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