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National Themes For May 16th: Honor Our LGBT Elders Day, National Do Something Good for Your Neighbor Day, National Love a Tree Day, National Piercing Day, National Sea Monkey Day, National Biographer’s Day, and National Coquilles Saint Jacques Day.

🎗Honor Our LGBT Elders Day! The rights and acceptance that LGBT individuals have today did not occur in a vacuum or happen by accident. Our LGBT elders worked hard to gain rights and social acceptance. Honor Our LGBT Elders Day is an opportunity for community centers, faith organizations, educational institutions and aging service providers to recognize the lives of LGBT older adults and honor their contributions to history.

🎗National Do Something Good For Your Neighbor Day! A neighbor is defined as: a person who lives near another. a person or thing that is near another. one’s fellow human being. Our neighbor’s our precious, and it is important to show them gratitude at every opportunity. This day is a reminder that we are all neighbors, and that we should treat each other with love and respect. Starr Valentino founded Do Something Good For Your Neighbor day in 2009. Mr. Valentino has worked tirelessly and to date has over 500 proclamations for Do Something Good For Your Neighbor Day from villages, towns and cities across the USA and Canada.

❤️🌳National Love a Tree Day. On this day, trees are celebrated and recognized for the wonderful gift that they are to us. National Love a Tree Day is in the middle of Garden for Wildlife Month. Most species of trees tend to be long-lived. There are some trees that live to be several thousand years old. The tallest known tree is 379 ft. tall. Trees provide more than just beautiful landscapes and a shady canopy on a sunny day. They play a significant role in reducing erosion and moderating the climate as well as give us oxygen. Large quantities of carbon are stored in their tissues as trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

🗡National Piercing Day was created simply to promote piercing. Stores, shops, boutiques and salons across the country offer piercing specials and other promotions on National Piercing Day. Since ancient times, body piercings have been used for artistic expression, medical treatment and religious ceremony.

🙈National Sea Monkey Day! Most of us have memories of waiting for our mail order shipment of these magical creatures. The delivery usually contained the small “aquarium-like” hatching kit for them to live and grow in. Sea Monkeys are a type of “Artemia” (brine shrimp). They got their name because of their monkey-tail look. Following the popularity of the ant farms, Harold von Braunhut invented the “Sea Monkeys” and hatching kits in 1957. He did most of his advertising through comic books. He once said, “I think I bought something like 3.2 million pages of comic book advertising a year. It worked beautifully.” These little crustaceans have made their appearances on television shows including Spin City, Roseanne, Night Court, South Park, The Simpsons, It’s Garry Shandling’s Show and Desperate Housewives. Sea Monkeys went into space with astronaut John Glenn on October 29, 1998, aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. They returned to Earth after spending nine days in space and the eggs hatched eight weeks later, apparently unaffected by their travels.

📝National Biographer’s Day commemorates the anniversary of the first meeting of Samuel Johnson and his biographer James Boswell in London, England on May 16, 1763, and honors all biographers. A biography is a written account of another person’s life. Famous poet, essayist, literary critic, editor and lexicographer, Johnson was also a biographer. According to Johnson, the best biographers were those who ate, drank and “lived in social intercourse” with those about whom they wrote. If that were true, his best biography would be An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers which was published in 1744. Applying this same rule, Scots-born James Boswell met his friend Samuel Johnson at a bookshop near Covent Garden. Nearly 30 years later he publishes The Life of Johnson, which becomes the most celebrated English biography.

🍄National Coquilles Saint Jacques Day! This day is dedicated to the Coquilles Saint Jacques dish, a dish usually consisting of scallops combined with a mixture of butter, cream, mushrooms and cheese, baked in a scallop shell.

I love all my trees. I don't like needles that well. I'll pass on growing sea monkeys. And I would like to try Coquilles Saint Jacques. It sounds good.

Tomorrow is a state day! Here's a hint: they have potatoes!

Warm hugs!🐶🐶💕🌤