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Carol H Tucker
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Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
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a book a day....
Today is the 4th day of the 36th week, the 6th day of the 9th month, the 249th day of 2017 [with 109 shopping days until Christmas], and:
- Barbie Doll Day
- Fight Procrastination Day
- Great Egg Toss Day
- Independence Day: Swaziland from the United Kingdom in 1968
- National Coffee Ice Cream Day
- Read a Book Day
- Stillbirth Remembrance Day
ON THIS DAY: In 394 Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeated and killed the usurper Eugenius at the Battle of the Frigidus:. In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. In 1522 the Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returned to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world. In 1620 the Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.) In 1628 Puritans settled Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1803 British scientist John Dalton began using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements. In 1847 Henry David Thoreau left Walden Pond and moved in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts. In 1916 the first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was opened in Memphis, Tennessee, by Clarence Saunders. In 1943 the Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, was founded in Monterrey, Mexico. In 1952 Canadian television broadcasting began at 4 PM as CBFT-TV in Montréal (now part of CBC's French network Radio-Canada) goes on the air with the movie Aladdin and His Lamp, followed by a cartoon. In 1962 archaeologist Peter Marsden discovered the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the 2nd century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London. In 1995 Cal Ripken, Jr of the Baltimore Orioles played in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years. In 1996 Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles hit his 500th career home run during a game against the Detroit Tigers. In 2017 NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 20 mins 47 secs of light-travel time from Earth
Quote of the day:
“Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
~ Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was a prolific Irish writer who wrote plays, fiction, essays, and poetry)
Today my thoughts are not coherent, they are darting all over the place.
You can say all you want that the rules have changed and there is no such thing as the fashion police [Serial Mon notwithstanding]. I don’t care really that the rules about wearing white [and straw hats and pocketbooks] from Memorial Day to Labor Day was an arbitrary rule – that was how I was brought up and I feel guilty if I do it.
We are all pointing the finger of blame at POTUS for rescinding the protections for “dreamers” the fact is that 10 states were ready to sue the government over the policy -- Arkansas, Alabama, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia if he failed to do so. The governors in those states are every bit as heartless. Congress needs to step into the breach [which they have failed to do in the past] with a legislative fix that assures the futures of about 800,000 undocumented workers who came to the United States as children because this is the only life they have ever known.
Although I pride myself on having a done switch, once I give my heart a piece of it resides with the other person forever.
When I was a kid, my mother made a hard and fast rule: I was only allowed to read one book a day. For me EVERY day was read a book day and I was very put out if I didn’t get a chance to do so!
My life would’ve been so drab without my books!
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