Mimosa

Today in Italy is "la Festa delle donne", i would translate it as "Women's day". It's a day to celebrate women and the rights and achievements they conquered in many years, politically, socially etc (unfortunately it's not so achieved everywhere).
While searching for a link, I found
here on wikipedia, that it should be an international day, but to be honest i never heard my english friends talking about this day!
Do anyone of you celebrate it?!

Anyway, here in Italy is quite popular...and like all the "national days"....like valentine's day or mum's day etc...with time it became more commercial than celebrative!
Men are supposed to be kind and thoghtful to their women and then there is a general exchange (also women to women) of this flower, the Mimosa pictured above!;-)...a wonderful yellow, fluffy flower that blossom in this period!
This morning at the market there were Mimosa's branches everywhere....soo cool to see, especially as i love yellow flowers!;-)

The mimosa i blipped is not a present from anyone...it's, instead, from the Mimosa tree of my neightbour...she has a huge wonderful tree that now looks like a yellow cloud...wonderful!!! Just to look at it makes me feel more energetic and happy!
And to be honest i do prefer to enjoy these flowers looking at them on the tree, cos there they last for many days, but if u cut a branch (as they do in this day) they last maximum for a day or two and when they dry and they lose their "fluffyness"...they lose their beauty!

Ahh...another thing women are used to do on this day is going out with their female friends ...and generally ending in some clubs only for women to enjoy men's strip or something like that! SO SAD!!!...it's a thing a never liked, as if women should wait for this day to go out with their girl-friends and enjoy some time for themselves!..with or without striptease!
I say this cos i see so many women that seems to wait for this day to go out among women or simply to have some time for themselves....and to me it's such a paradox...cos this day is here to celebrate women's emancipation!...not to allow them a day a year of personal time!
So i never took part to any of these meetings and i enjoy, instead, my time with my girl-friends, when i want and can!;-)

This morning my sister in law sent me a nice txt for this day, it has some true words i'll try to translate it and share it with you:

A woman has a strength that surprise the man
She can control any crap
she can carry big burdens
and she keeps joy, love and opinions.
She smiles when she wants to shout,
she sings when she simply wants to cry,
she cries when she is happy
and she laughs when she is scared.
Her love is uncontrollable.
The only wrong thing with her
it's that sometimes she forget how much she counts.

Well...i think i should remember myself how much i count too sometimes!;-)

Have a good weekend!

Poppins!