World Days: In Search of Attention to Older Adults
Droplets (Shakespeare's Garden) Today is World Water Day, following close on the heels of March 21st which was World Forestry Day, World Sleep Day, and International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination -- all wrapped into one day. Although yesterday, the only day I saw commemorated was World Forestry Day. Most notably by Google which used its street view technology to immerse us in the landscape of the Amazon River. Pretty cool stuff. I would have enjoyed celebrating World Sleep Day though -- I think a collective postprandial nap around the world around 2:00 pm in each time zone would be just the right thing to celebrate that day. Leaf Boat (Conservatory Garden) I was curious about the World Days and so set off to investigate this on the Web. It took a lot of trial and error to find an article on Hub Pages about world important days with an actual list. Tomorrow is World Meteorological Day -- it makes sense to have a run of d...