Happy Bloomsday, Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                              How can I forget, girls?  Besides being my niece's birthday, this is also Bloomsday.

                               The legend of this day has two stories.  The first is it is the day on which Joyce's entire novel, "Ulysses," takes place, back in 1904.  The second is that on this day, presumably in 1904, he met the woman, Nora, who became his wife.

                                 Each story is beautiful in its own way.  For those who know I am literary, it is embarrassing for me to say that I have not yet read "Ulysses."  I have a copy in the house and still have full intention to read it; but there is so much to get through before it.  Originally, I had the idea of re-reading Homer's "The Odyssey," and then "Ulysses" to see how the two are entwined.  But, outside of Shakespeare and Emily Bronte, I was not one to handle verse.  So, if I do "Ulysses" it will be a stand-alone reading.

                                  Alas, on this day, I should have stood in the living room and read Molly Bloom's Soliloquy aloud.  I have often done that in past years, but we were busy today, so that is that.

                                    All I can do is wish everyone on here a Happy Bloomsday!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                 "...and I said yes, I said yes, yes Yes YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                                 We should all be so lucky, like Molly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!