Happy first day of August! Did you know that today, August 1, is National Girlfriends’ Day, National Mountain Climbing Day, and National Raspberry Cream Pie Day? The whole month is Admit You’re Happy Month, and this first week of August is Simplify Your Life Week. Pretty interesting month, isn’t it?
If you have an August birthday, you were born in an excellent–a month with a history. To start with, it was once called Sextilis and was the sixth month. Then, along came powerful Augustus Caesar. It was renamed August in the year 8 B.C. Augustus left us some pithy quotes, things to think about. Hasten slowly, Augustus said, and, I found Rome a city of bricks and left it, a city of marble. His great uncle was Julius Caesar. An impressive fellow, Augustus.
The lovely Peridot is your birth stone and you have two flowers: the poppy and the gladiolus. In the language of flowers, these mean beauty, strength of character, love and family. You can’t go wrong with these! Come to think of it, these attributes pretty well describe the people I know who were born this month.
So, welcome August! I hope you are a month filled with good things, good health, family and friends gathered around, and lots and lots of cozy mysteries near at hand!
Close-up on an ancient statue of Caesar Octavianus Augustus, that stands in Ravenna (Italy) in front of the Church of Saint Apollinare in Classe.
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