Whan in Aprille - You Should Have Some Fun!

April is almost here and while many of us are concerned primarily, or mostly, or somewhat about Income Tax Day, here are some fun ideas to explore to take your mind off such nonsense.

April 1-30: Celebrate National Poetry Month. Write a poem for your work team or organization; answer the phone in verse (remember Ms DiPesto from the TV series Moonlighting - she is the extremely loyal and quirky receptionist for the Blue Moon Detective Agency who always answers the phone in rhyme); name someone your organization's Poet Laureate; put white butcher paper all over your work place and encourage people to come in and write their own poems. For more ideas, see: http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/94

April 1: Do something foolish for yourself or someone else.

April 9 and 12: Celebrate the beginning (April 12) and end (April 9) of the Civil War. You know, be civil to all around you!

April 23: Celebrate Shakeapeare's birthday. Sing Brush Up Your Shakespeare; declaim passages from your favorite plays or sonnets; dress up in the style of the times; play the game described in the next post. You get the idea.

Consider songs that have the word April in them and add to this list: April Come She Will (http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/simon+and+garfunkel/april+come+she+will_20124678.html); April Showers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsfXi5BKkNo); and so forth and so on.

So,  is "April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain." Not if you don't let it be!

PS - Anyone interested can name the source of "Whan in Aprille" and "April is the cruelest month". Lunch with Fred is the potential prize.