2024: Mackie's Pictorial Calendar: A Young Artist's Masterpiece

Mackie's Pictorial Calendar:

A Young Artist's Masterpiece

Dr Abe V Rotor 

Oh, Calendar, how precious you are!

Link of days, seasons of the year,

the sun and the moon and every star,

work and leisure, trials and cheer. - avr

Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it’ll keep you.- Mae West

There is nothing so intractable as a calendar. – Margery Sharp

January

“New month, new intentions, new goals, new love, new light, and new beginnings.” — April Mae Monterrosa

“Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.”— Marsha Petrie Sue

February

“Though February is short, it is filled with lots of love and sweet surprises.” - ― Charmaine J. Forde

March 

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

― Charles Dickens

April

"The sun was warm but the wind was chill. 

 You know how it is with an April day. 

 When the sun is out and the wind is still,

 You're one month on in the middle of May."

      - Robert Frost, "Two Tramps in Mud Time"

“Some people can’t be fooled on April Fool’s Day

because they were fooled too many times

during their entire lifetime.” – Akash B Chandran

                               

May 

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein

"It isn't where you came from. It's where you're going that counts."

 - Ella Fitzgerald

June

The longer days of June (Northern hemisphere) mean 

there's more sunshine in your life. 

- Popular saying 

July 

“I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.”— Audre Lorde, July 24International Self-Care Day

“When you take care of yourself, you’re a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.”— Solange Knowles
 

August

“Happy people are the best, and August is the month of the happiest people.” - Popular saying

 September

Make it a September to remember.  Remember the song?

October

October is commonly associated with the season of spring in parts of the Southern Hemisphere, and autumn in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to April in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. - Science

November

“November: The last month of autumn, but the beginning of a new adventure; time to take a risk and do the unexpected.” - Common sayings

                                                     December

More than any month, December is full of festivities,  December 21 is the Winter Solstice—the astronomical first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and first day of summer in the Southern Hemisphere. December 25 is Christmas Day. 

Mackie, 10 years old, is grand daughter of the author.  She and her family live in Brisbane, Australia.