There is a smile of love,

And there is a smile of deceit;

And there is a smile of smiles,

In which these two smiles meet.

(And there is a frown of hate,

And there is a frown of disdain;

And there is a frown of frowns

Which you strive to forget in vain,

For it sticks in the heart’s deep core,

And it sticks in the deep backbone.)



And no smile that ever was smiled,

But only one smile alone—

That betwixt the cradle and grave

It only once smiled can be.

But when it once is smiled

There’s an end to all misery.

“The Smile” by William Blake, from Selected Poetry. © Oxford University Press, 1996.

It was part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, and it was first intended to help keep senior citizens out of poverty, which it still does. Social Security numbers were introduced in 1936 for keeping track of taxes paid into the system. These days people usually fill out their child’s Social Security application along with the child’s birth certificate, and now Social Security numbers are the de facto identification number of everyone born or working in America.

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The Perkinson Rose Garden will be pruned on Thursday, August 19.

Not only is the City working on the Sutherlin Mansion's lawn, the Garden Club of Danville will be pruning the beautiful roses in our main DMFAH garden – a magnificent rose garden, the Perkinson Rose Garden. The Garden Club members will be coming with clippers - getting rid of the dead blooms in preparation for the fall bloom show. For all of you who are soap-makers, still-life painters or chefs: This is an opportunity to find just the right rose petal ingredients. Pruning will commence at 9 am, and should be finished in 2 hours or less. 

Make a DIY rose scrub for yourself or as a gift. It’s a great way to use rose petals and easy to make. Pink roses are recommended for this scrub, as they seem to hold their color a best. Pink roses tend to fade to a soft mauve, which looks pretty in a scrub.

Homemade Rose Scrub

·     Gently pluck the past prime or pruned rose petals

·     Add 1 cup of sugar, half a cup of coconut oil and 2 cups of rose petals to a blender

·      Blend the mixture until it feels and looks like a scrub (adding more oil if it’s too solid)

·     Add in 10 drops of rose essential oil and mix together

·     Pop it into a container and keep for yourself, or give away as a gift!