Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 01, 2023

Christmas has a huge playlist of music. Independence Day has the marches of Sousa. Halloween has Monster Mash. What other holidays have music??

Easter has Masses of music!

I’m educated. I’m well-read. So how come I never heard of this Robert Frost poem I just had to Google?

Fool on the Hill. Everybody Plays the Fool. Chain of Fools.

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee…"

Also T. S. Eliot. “April is the cruelest month.”

Psalm 53:1

Wonder if Adam appeared on April 1. Heard a lady complain that her husband’s name was always first on checking accounts, first asked to sign on ‘dotted line’ of legal documents, etc.

I suggested that because Adam was first male and he screwed up so badly, it became a tradition of have men go first so their failures could be corrected by women.

She thought about that, then kinda smiled and said For once you got something right. Took you long enough.

Father, forgive us for what we must do,

You forgive us, we’ll forgive you,

We’ll forgive each other ’til we both turn blue,

Then we’ll whistle and go fishin’ in heaven.

John Prine (now on an extended fishing trip)

Nowadays every day has Gimme Shelter. (;>(

I have taken the road less traveled and been better off for it.

November 2, All Souls Day in the Catholic calendar, has a multitude of requiem masses. (They were also used for funerals, of course.)

Amen.

i woke up this morning to frost, along with 3 inches of slush and 6 inches of swow on top of that. Just when I had my walks clear. Will be keeping the snow blower out til July this year looks like. Some joke.

John Prine: ♪ “Father forgive us for what we must do. You forgive us. We’ll forgive you. We’ll forgive each other till we both turn blue, then we’ll whistle and go fishing in heaven.” ♪

April fish!

April 1 for me had 8 inches of wet snow to shovel.

Flag Day: “It’s a grand old flag” and “The Star Spangled Banner”.