Thanks to Stefan Jonasson I learned that today is the 200th birthday of Ukrainian national hero and poet Taras Shevchenko. Since I live very close to the Shevchenko memorial here in Washington D.C. I took our dog Daisy for her morning walk to visit the memorial.
After all, the Ukraine is much on our minds now.
We followed up with a visit to the Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk memorial around the corner, whose birthday was March 8. Masaryk was the first president of Czechoslovakia; he was also a religious reformer, ending up as much a Unitarian as Jefferson, no doubt in part to the influence of his American Unitarian wife, Charlotte Garrigue.
(I’ll be writing more about what makes successful floral tributes closer to Memorial Day.)
This is Daisy: it’s not her birthday today, but she is going to go to the groomer.
Later. The goomer did quite a job, but where’s the rest of my dog?