As the school year draws to a close, our sons in middle/junior high and high school may be facing final exams. Today's Thoughtful Thursday offerings are a mix of poems about tests and school in general. It includes a cute poem to read to your young one who needs a bit of encouragement on test taking day, a poem [...]
With today's Thoughtful Thursday GCP joins the world in celebrating the life of Maya Angelou, poet and author extraordinaire. Here we share a few of our favorite quotes. Enjoy. * * * * * * * * * * * I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it [...]
We are still in graduation season, and the inspirational quotes abound. Here are a few more: We begin with two quotes from John Legend's commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania: The key to success, the key to happiness, is opening your mind and your heart to love. Spending your time doing things you love and with people you [...]
Saw "A Raisin in the Sun" on Broadway this week. If you are in the New York City area between now and June 15th, by all means go and see it. Even if you have seen the play many times before, this production and cast is well worth seeing. Standout acting in a production that feels as if it [...]
Graduation season is upon us! (We at GCP are especially excited about this, as one of our young'uns is graduating in a few weeks.) For this week's Thoughtful Thursday offering, we are serving up a few quotes from commencement speeches to inspire us all. Enjoy. "You have been tested and tempered by events that your parents and I never [...]
Today, May 1st, is May Day. May Day celebrates the arrival of Spring, and in many parts of the world children dance around the maypole as part of the May Day commemoration. In many cultures, May Day, also known as International Worker's Day or Labor Day, is also a day of celebrating work and workers. This week's Thoughtful Thursday [...]
Notwithstanding the strong chill in the air and the whipping winds that continue to greet us each morning on the East Coast, it is Spring, so it is about time that we pay tribute to the season on Thoughtful Thursday. We shall do so with a hodgepodge of poems about Spring. We begin with two poems by classic African [...]
Did you know that April was Math Awareness month? So we at GCP are turning our thoughts to mathematics. We pay tribute to Benjamin Banneker, present some math quotes, and, as April is still Poetry Month as well, present a math based Langston Hughes poem. Enjoy. Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) was a largely self-educated mathematician, astronomer, compiler of almanacs, inventor [...]
April is National Poetry month, and in honor of this, today's Thoughtful Thursday will feature two poems about writing poetry. John Brehm's "The Poems I Have Not Written", and Billy Collins' "Workshop," use humor to offer insight into the poetry writing process. Enjoy. The Poems I Have Not Written I’m so wildly unprolific, the poems I have not written [...]
Yes, we know it is not Thursday. But we so love Thoughtful Thursday that even though we were not able to post yesterday, we are posting it today. When we were unable to post, the old expression "a day late and a dollar short" rang in our ears. So, we've decided to devote today's Thoughtful Thursday to favorite expressions [...]