For those who are celebrating Easter...

Happy Easter! And for the most Easter-appropriate song I can think of, I refer you to my earlier post on "Easter Parade" and other related Irving Berlin songs. (Please do click through; the song was already 85 years old when I posted it originally, it surely hasn't aged appreciably in an extra year or two.)

(No, I still cannot write a sonnet. Don't judge me!)

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Have you seen the dancing healthcare workers? CHECK THEM OUT! You'll have to click through to the CNN article for the TikTok vids--and you should!--since I am insufficiently hip for that app. However, I know how to embed from Instagram, so...:



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