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Carol H Tucker
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Christmas Eve's Eve
Today is the 6th day of the 51st week, the 23rd day of the 12th month, the 358th day of 2016, and:
- Festivus
- Human Light Celebration
- National Pfeffernüsse Day
- National Roots Day
ON THIS DAY: In 484 Huneric died and is succeeded by his nephew Gunthamund, who becomes king of the Vandals -- during his reign Christians are protected from persecution. In 1783 George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland. 1788 Maryland passed an act to cede a parcel of land for the seat of the national government, part of which later became the District of Columbia. In 1823 the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C Moore was first published, in the Troy (NY) Sentinel. In 1893 the opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck [wait, what? I thought he was the that pop singer....] was first performed. In 1947 the transistor was first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories. In 1970 the North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, NY NY was topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world.
So today is the last business day before Christmas. It is really nice having Christmas fall on a Sunday – most of us have off on Saturday [Christmas Eve] AND a federal holiday on Monday so the day after Christmas [AKA Boxing Day] we’re off as well. Traffic was really light, but Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts were both mobbed, with lines going out the door. Those of us who are in the office are definitely not focused, but trying to deal with business, and most places are closing early.
I am trying very hard to stay in the holiday spirit to the point of not reading some social media as well as ignoring the news as much as possible what with the specter of another arms race being raised via Twitter, the Rockettes being forced to perform whether they want to or not, and North Carolina showing how easily democracy can be castrated….. Get over this election? I am still very much afraid that at best we put an unbalanced reality show star in the White House while at worst we have elected a dictator even while I continue to hope that he will mature and season in the Oval Office to the point where while I might not agree with his decisions, at least I will feel that we have come to the end of days!. Seriously, for the first time in decades, I have actually thought about the fact that I and most of my family would be wiped out in the first wave of nuclear bombing and wondered whether or not relocating would be a good idea. I just keep wondering how Germans felt back in 1937, whether or not they had any inkling or foreboding of what was to come. Maybe they didn’t, but if they did, did they feel as helpless as I do to stem the tide? Or did they keep telling themselves that it couldn’t possibly be as bad as all that?
So I keep playing Christmas music and concentrating on friends, family and my 2nd Life singing to myself softly “let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me…..”
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