Friday Poem

Environmental & Science Education, Poetry, Art and Environment

Ed Hessler

Welcome and good morning from the Center for Global Environmental Education (CGEE), Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN on New Year's Eve day, the last day of 2021. First, some numbers that make up 100% of the year.

--31,536,000 seconds

--525,600 minutes

--8760 hours

--365 days

--52 weeks and 1 day

Sunrise is at 7:50 am and sunset is at 4:40 pm with 8h 50m 06s of sunlight. 45 seconds of daylight have been added since the winter solstice.

It is National Vinegar Day for which see Foodimentary and National Champagne Day for which see National Day.

 

Quote: I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.--Neil Gaimon

Today's poem is by Alfred Lord Tennyson. 

And because it is a poem you have probably read before or parts,  here is another by Adrienne Su.

Happy New Year!