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Today is Thursday, February 11, 2016. It is the second day of Lent and the day before the day before a long holiday weekend for those lucky enough to have President’s Day off in the US. It is the 42nd day of this year and there are only 317 shopping days until Christmas. It is also:
Be Electrific Day
Get Out Your Guitar Day
Grandmother Achievement Day
National Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day
National Inventors' Day
National Make a Friend or Make a Friends' Day – oh the difference an apostrophe and an “s” makes!
National Peppermint Patty Day
National Shut-in Visitation Day
Pro Sports Wives Day
Promise Day
Satisfied Staying Single Day
Today is White Shirt Day
On this day in 660 BC, tradition holds the Emperor Jimmu founded Japan and National Foundation Day is a big holiday each year. It is also New Year’s Day for those using the lunisolar calendar rather than the Gregorian.
Quote of the day: “It is never easy to confront life-changing news, especially when you are deeply embroiled in the everyday and the banal, which we always are. They absorb almost everything, make almost everything small, apart from the few events that are so immense that they lay waste to all the everyday trivia around you. Big news is like that and it is not possible to live inside it.” ~ Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle, Book 2
What do you consider the kind of news that would change your life?
My first thought was finding out a loved one had died – I will never ever forget standing in the office at TWSB and the conversation with the doctor about Frank. My second thought went immediately to the opposite – my first granddaughter’s life irrevocably changed when my daughter became pregnant with her second daughter. And then I thought of losing a job – the sudden descent into despair and disorientation or depression if you cannot find other employment or source of income. But lives change on irrevocable choices made every day, neh? You didn’t go for that job interview and a door quietly closes on a future career path. You broke up with that person and another possible future silently vanishes. You didn’t take that route to work and didn’t get into that accident. You played the lottery and won – well okay, that might be more in the line of wishful thinking but it would change lives!
Sometimes it is a little thing that just makes you think hard enough to alter your perspective. I remember standing in the student center and watching as LBJ announced he would not run for President. Now mind you, I had been an active and angry demonstrator, hanging Nam around his neck and flagellating him mercilessly for that war – but at that moment I was not elated, I was shocked that a man who had spent all of his life working for the country had been brought down and his contributions to the Great Society ignored because we all focused on that one issue to the exclusion of everything else. It made me do a lot of research about him and while I still don’t like him or his wheeling and dealing, I now think LBJ has been under-appreciated and was the last president who really understood how to get things done in Congress. And that moment substantially altered the way I have viewed every single politician since.
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