Friday, April 24, 2026

Yesterday Was National Bryan Day. Alas, I Spent It Grading and Working on Grant Budgets. I Really Did Try, Though.

I have no idea who comes with weird national days, but it truly was National Bryan Day yesterday. I've marked an alert on my calendar for the rest of my life (or, at least as long as I-Calendar and I-phones exist). Denise Krebs prompt on #VerseLove was to take a poet (I used Ruth Stone) and take the first words of each line in one of their poems to see where it will take you. I love playing, and knowing it was National Bryan Day it was a no-brainer to celebrate me...although it never happened. I did walk, at 7 a.m., an did eat at the University student center (a salad), but otherwise it was a day of labor.

Oh, Pam forgot her glasses, so I had to drop of a pair of mine to get her through the day. There was that, too. Then the number crunching, followed by the grading, which is not going like I hoped it would. I get through a few and then I want to go outside and get my hands in the dirt, which I'm trying to hold off until Spring. 

The prompt asked to steal from another, so I took the first words from Ruth Stone's poem, Shapes. I went egotistical and celebrated myself without any real celebrations...a cause for celebration, indeed.

And today is Friday. God bless...I'm going to a faculty retreat. Pray for me that I won't gouge my eyes out and leap from a balcony. I'm hoping to endure. 

It’s the Thought That Counts

b.r.crandall


In other news, it's National Bryan Day;

however, I don’t expect much. Just dinner,

so you might want to think about where 

you will take me. I don’t like olives or celery, but

of course I love bourbon in all forms. Will you stop 

by to pick me up? I’m already showered,

as I anticipated someone would want to 

head over for this day of ME.. You just need to

step up, grab your wallet, & drive to 332 Mt. Pleasant..

LIKE NOW.. Stop reading this poem & get your keys

or you won’t make it to Stratford upon-the-sound

by a decent hour. George Washington is

a motorized monster at this time & I-95 will likely be

in red from Greenwich to Bridgeport until 7 p.m.

Even if you leave now…oh forget it. Just forget it. Look

at the time. I’ll celebrate myself without you.

Yesterday Was National Bryan Day. Alas, I Spent It Grading and Working on Grant Budgets. I Really Did Try, Though.

I have no idea who comes with weird national days, but it truly was National Bryan Day yesterday. I've marked an alert on my calendar fo...