Saint Patrick's Day

The grass is always greener on the other side, until you jump the fence and see the weeds up close.
- Albert Grashuis

Latet anguis in herba. (There's a snake hidden in the grass.)
- Virgil, 70 - 19 BC

May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
the rains fall soft upon your fields
and, until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
- Irish Blessing

About: Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, died on 17 Mar in the year 461, and has been regarded as a saint in Ireland since that time. (Never formally canonized, when the Roman church first published a list of saints Patrick was included.) The first known secular celebration of his feast day was a quarter-millennium ago, on this day in 1756 at the Crown and Thistle Tavern at New York City. He was one of the great missionaries, largely responsible for converting the Irish from their pagan heritage to Christianity, but the story about driving the snakes into the sea has no historical support and never heard any good reason why kids that forget to wear green today will get pinched!