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And then there are Mondays
Today is the 11th day of the 4th month, the 102nd day of 2016 and: - Barbershop Quartet Day
- Education and Sharing Day
- International Louie Louie Day
- International Table Top Day
- National Cheese Fondue Day
- National Eight-Track Tape Day ((how many folks these day know what this is?))
- National Pet Day
- National Teach Children To Save Day
- Submarine Day
- World Parkinson's Disease Day
A couple things happened on this day in history that I found rather interesting [YMMV]. The first recorded event was in 491 when Flavius Anastasius became the Byzantine emperor, calling himself Anastasius I [seriously, what kind of hubris makes you declare that you are “I” because you are assuming there will be at least a II?] In 1689, William III and Mary II were crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain, formalizing the Norman Conquest and sundering England from the Scandinavian countries. In 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as emperor of France and was banished to the island of Elba, where he stayed less than a year. In 1909 the city of Tel Aviv was founded. In 1976 today is the official birthday of the Apple I. And in 1957, Britain agreed to Singapore self-rule.
No, I didn’t have much to say over the weekend. Still don’t really have a lot to say this Monday either. Lots of thoughts swirling about, not much that can be articulated, much less in a way that sounds witty or even mildly interesting. Lots of things that I do not like that I could go on and on and on about! The runaway income inequity for one thing as my country seems to be polarizing into those that have and those that have not – I even heard a story this morning on NPR that confirmed the wealthy are living longer. Well duh – they can afford the best in health care, neh? Another thing that I do not like is this presidential election, not even a little. The Republicans’ clown circus just keeps rolling on and the Democrats have started sniping at each other rather than talking plans, vision and ideas. Where are the leaders? And last, those poor refugees, shunted aside, discriminated against, penned up in camps, shuffled about like unwanted garbage – is it any wonder that the radicals find fertile recruiting grounds? But talking about these things doesn’t make me feel better because I don’t know how to fix them and even if I did, I don’t know how to get others to listen to me. It all seems hopeless
So, bringing it down to a more personal scale, reaching for three things to be thankful for: [1] I can see, something that I can never take for granted again. My friend is struggling as her world goes dark, and there really isn’t a lot of help out there. For every success story there are a lot of folks who are falling between the cracks. [2] Monday morning. Sounds rather odd, for I always complain about Mondays, but I was reminded after my post of yesterday that tomorrow is promised to no one – and my friend was 100% right. Besides, I have a job and a salary and am making a living wage at least, if not one that will permit me the luxuries I crave. And [3] I have lost weight. Not because I am “dieting” or because I feel the need to be thin [well thinner since I have never in my entire life been what you call slender] but in the course of trying to get my blood sugar numbers under control, I shed some pounds and now I have to admit, I feel better in my clothes and have started getting more daring with what I wear – for example, today I have leggings on!
And so life rolls on….
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