A thought to ponder..

Here's an image that may give us all something to think about .. we forget that there are always eyes upon us seeing how we behave in life - and that will then become their rationale for behaviour! 

Happy Wattle Day 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattle_Day

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-01/wattle-day-celebrating-110th-anniversary-and-growing-prominence/12574654

http://www.wattleday.asn.au/for-schools/songs/WattleDaySong

http://www.wattleday.asn.au/about-wattle-day/2020-week-of-the-wattle-around-australia-1

About 110 years ago, saw the first Wattle Day celebrations - and although we don't hear much about it, in pockets and corners of our country, they are still happening.  

The popularity of Wattle Day surged during World War 1, when sprigs of wattle were sold to raise funds for organisations such as the Red Cross - and wattles covered the first monument to World War 1 when it was unveiled by the Governor-General on September 7th, 1915.

Wattle and Wattle Day can symbolise pretty much anything we want, but they relate pretty generally to: Spring, being Australian, the Australian environment, and history. Spring has many positive values such as optimism, bounty and abundance, reliability, colour, new life and so on. We can celebrate our 'Australianness' on Wattle Day in quite a different way from Anzac Day, which in recalling past wars glorifies Australian qualities of courage and mateship. 

Wattle Day, by contrast, looks forward (to Spring) and can celebrate the nation's genuine qualities of good humour, fairness, generosity, informality and democracy.  

It could be argued that a celebration of 'Australianness' symbolised by wattle, the popular national floral emblem, combined with a celebration of the coming of Spring could be a very special occasion every year. An added attraction is that Wattle Day dates back more than eighty years and is a part of Australia's history.

It may be time to bring Wattle Day back again - and to celebrate Australia rather than a myriad of festivals from other countries around the globe? 

Wattle has been regarded as the flower of Australia partly due to the fact that at any given time of the year, somewhere in Australia, a wattle will be blooming.

More ideas on Picture Books

A few further thoughts on Picture Books from authors and readers:

Here are 12 reasons why picture books are important.

Little kids love them
Big kids love them
Adults love them
They make us laugh
They make us cry
They make us think
They help us understand the world
They help us understand each other
They stay with us
They are fun to talk about
They are fun to give as gifts
They smell good

http://inkygirl.com/inkygirl-main/2013/11/7/why-picture-books-are-important.html

http://www.tanglewoodbooks.com/tangled-up/15-reasons-why-we-will-always-love-picture-books/

https://www.writersdigest.com/guest-columns/picture-books-are-not-just-for-children-10-reasons-why

What are your reasons for loving them?

History and Lies

Check out this link from the Mindshift blog about history, lies and how history could be possibly be used as a weapon.  Thought provoking or what?

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/51857/lies-my-teacher-told-me-and-how-american-history-can-be-used-as-a-weapon