The art of seeing the world is about understanding the beauty in both the light and the shadows, finding meaning in moments that others might overlook. Today, apparently, is Eeyore’s birthday, and I imagine that if I were to see the world through his eyes, I might be surprised by the gentle resilience and unexpected wisdom and even some sweet-sarcasm he brings through these Eeyorisms!

• “Sad? Why should I be sad? It’s my birthday. The happiest day of the year.”
• “We can’t all, and some of us don’t.”
• “Sure is a cheerful color. Guess I’ll have to get used to it.”
• “Thanks for noticin’ me.”
• “Thanks, But I’d rather stay an Eeyore.”
• “If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient.”
• “It’s snowing still. And freezing. However, we haven’t had an earthquake lately.”
• “I never get my hopes up, so I never get let down.”
• “That’s what would be so interesting, Pooh. Not being quite sure till afterward.”
• “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said ‘Bother!’. The Social Round. Always something going on.”
• “Don’t Bustle me,” said Eeyore, getting up slowly. “Don’t now-then me.”
• “After all, what are birthdays? Here today and gone tomorrow.”
• “The most wonderful thing about Tiggers is you’re the only one.”

Now, on to more on the art of seeing the world…

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Poetic Sundays: Dwelling on the Art of Seeing the World

Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt challenges us to be inspired by W.H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” that draws inspiration from a painting – Breughel’s “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” and then write our own poem that describes a detail in a  painting, and that begins, like Auden’s poem, with a grand, declarative statement.

M C Escher’s art has fascinated me for a long time now and today I picked Escher’s Relativity as my muse.

Perspective, You See, is the Art of Seeing the World

In the end, it’s all perspective—how we see the world
Do we see it through rose-tinted glasses, or behind a wall of bleak?
Do we laugh away our sorrows and sing with the birds?
Or drown in ruby-red quenchers as days turn to weeks.

Do we see it as a climb up a straight wall?
Or turn it 90 degrees and see an easy stroll?
That door that seems to lead nowhere
could maybe lead to new adventures?

And maybe defeat isn’t really defeat, really not,
Maybe it is victory, disguised in an upside-down coat
Like that man in relativity, feeling he’s falling face-down,
yet climbing the stairs of success — just needs to turn his gaze ’round.

In the end, it’s all perspective, you see.
It’s how we see the world, it’s what makes our reality.

~ Vidya Tiru @ LadyInReadWrites

Recently

On My Blog and On the Home Front

These posts made their way out into the world on my blog this past week:

• Weaving Whispers of Windspark with Wondrous Words and More
• A Viator and a Vignette Meet One Day, Virtually
• Not an Understatement! One Song, Many Memories!
• Think Thesaurus Verse and Write Terrific Tunes!!
• The Super Surprising Swap Quatrain: The Write to Satisfy!
• The Rhyming Alliterisen and Real-ity Check-ins: We Really Cool
• Sunday Scribblings #220: Fitting New Big Words in Great Old Tunes

Not much, just a quiet week.

Upcoming

On My Blog & Homefront

A few more posts to finish up the A to Zs (X and Z are going to be a challenge for sure)

This Week’s Celebrations

Literary Celebrations (close-to-it also!)

• Literary birthdays this week include: Harper Lee and Terry Pratchett 28th; William Randolph Hearst, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Bharathidasan on the 29th; Annie Dillard 30th April; Joseph Heller, Karen Thompson Walker on May 1st; Jerome K Jerome on the 2nd; Niccolò Machiavelli on the 3rd; Robin Cook and Graham Swift on May 4th
• National Great Poetry Reading Day on the 28th is followed by more poetry with
• Poem In Your Pocket Day on April 29th
• Then May 1st kind of continues the poetic trend with National Mother Goose Day
• Followed by Harry Potter Day on the 2nd of May
• May 3rd observes World Press Freedom Day 
• The first Saturday in May celebrates Free Comic Book Day and National Scrapbook Day 
• May is Better Speech and Language Month as well as National Get Caught Reading Month

Foodie Celebrations

• The 28th of April is National Blueberry Pie Day 
• While April 30th observes National Bubble Tea Day, National Oatmeal Cookie Day, and National Raisin Day
• May begins with National Chocolate Parfait Day
• And National Truffle Day on the 2nd of May
• The 3rd of May is National Chocolate Custard Day and National Raspberry Popover Day
• May 4th is National Candied Orange Peel Day and National Orange Juice Day, and being the first Sunday in May, is also National Lemonade Day

Other Celebrations

• Pay it forward, and be a hero in someone’s life on the 28th, as it is Global Pay It Forward Day and National Superhero Day. It is also World Pinhole Photography Day
• It is National Peace Rose Day, International Dance Day,
  We Jump The World Day, and World Wish Day on the 29th of April
• While April 30th celebrates International Jazz Day, National PrepareAthon! Day, National Honesty Day, and National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day
• May 1st is May Day and Global Love Day
• And more love on the 2nd of May with Brothers and Sisters Day
• Followed by National Two Different Colored Shoes Day and National Teacher Appreciation Day on May 3rd
• And May the 4th is Bird Day, National Star Wars Day, and International Firefighters’ Day along with World Give Day and World Laughter Day

Wrapping Up My Big Words Sunday Scribblings

Dear reader, hope you enjoyed this big words post! Do share your most favorite (or feared or unfavorite) big words with me.

Linking this to the Sunday Post over at the Caffeinated Reviewer and the Sunday Salon. Also linking up to A-Z, Blogchatter, UBC, NaPoWriMo (on Sundays, not to A-Z, Blogchatter)

And you can find all my A-Z+ posts (this year and previous years’ as well) here:

A to Z Challenge Posts