{"id":6079,"date":"2014-02-05T00:06:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T00:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=6079"},"modified":"2014-02-05T12:42:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T12:42:42","slug":"suzy-snowflake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2014\/02\/suzy-snowflake\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzy Snowflake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The fourth day into February and it looks a lot like its January predecessors. The forecast is for more snow. Already some one from an event tomorrow is wondering whether it will be a snow day, maybe counting on it.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Guest Blog<\/strong> <\/a>is by Daniel Cleary<\/strong>. I was taken with his poem \u201cMore Snow\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 he posted it on FB a couple of days ago.\u00a0 I don\u2019t usually go for rhymed poetry unless it is subtle and natural, and I think this poem is. In the comments section of his post, Daniel added: “This is about the eternal winter of the arctic as much as anything else. It’s not about wishing for the spring to come. It’s about enjoying the barrenness of winter and embracing it.” It’s precisely because it does not have a \u201cThink Spring\u201d attitude that the poem so appeals to me. I don\u2019t have anything against the \u201cThink Spring” attitude and will probably adopt one pretty soon. But this poem makes me appreciate snow for what it can be.<\/p>\n

Think of that dreamy white page of paper. The blanket that descends and comforts. Blankness that could be anything (or nothing).<\/p>\n

Because I grew up in Chicago<\/strong> watching Garfield Goose<\/strong> after school, Suzy Snowflake <\/strong><\/em>pops up in my head when it snows. \u00a0Funny to think that at one time this captured my attention.\u00a0\u00a0 I Googled<\/strong> Suzy and found her preserved by Museum of Broadcast Communications. <\/strong><\/a>I\u2019ve embedded the video below.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what\u2019s written about this production: \u201cOn December 28, 1953, Chicago area kids were introduced to the whimsical story of Suzy Snowflake “tap, tap, tappin'” on every windowpane, seen on “Garfield Goose and Friends”<\/strong><\/em> then on WBBM-TV. Like “Hardrock, Coco and Joe,”<\/strong><\/em> Suzy too was brought to life by the stop-motion animators of Centaur Productions. Norma Zimmer was Suzy’s voice and the song was sung by The Norman Luboff Choir, a premier studio group.\u201d<\/p>\n

What caught my attention on a recent viewing were the snowflakes for I have been trying to capture a single flake with my camera. You can see my results on Glimpse of Solace<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

BTW, it’s snowing now.<\/p>\n

Peace, love, and solace<\/strong><\/p>\n

Suzy Snowflake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fourth day into February and it looks a lot like its January predecessors. The forecast is for more snow. Already some one from an event tomorrow is wondering whether it will be a snow day, maybe counting on it. Today\u2019s Guest Blog is by Daniel Cleary. I was taken with his poem \u201cMore Snow\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,1966,386,1961,1879,12,1964,1965,1967,13,1962,7,16,1963,1968,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-6079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-anthology","8":"tag-centaur-productions","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-dan-cleary","11":"tag-daniel-cleary","12":"tag-ellen-wade-beals","13":"tag-garfield-goose","14":"tag-museum-of-broadcast-communications","15":"tag-norma-zimmer","16":"tag-poetry","17":"tag-snowflake","18":"tag-solace","19":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","20":"tag-suzy-snowflake","21":"tag-the-norman-luboff-choir","22":"tag-weighed-words","23":"entry","24":"has-post-thumbnail"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6079"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6129,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions\/6129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}