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Today is the 5th day of the 8th week, the 21st day of the 2nd month, the 52nd day of 2019, and: 
  • Card Reading Day
  • Discover Girl Day
  • International Mother Language Day -  a worldwide annual observance to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity, and promote multilingualism
  • Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day
  • National Grain-Free Day
  • National Sticky Bun Day
  • Single Tasking Day
  • The Great American Spit Out ((just in case you were wondering, it is a campaign against chewing tobacco))
  • The first day of the Birth Anniversary of Fifth Druk Gyalpo, celebrated until February 23. (Bhutan)
  • The first day of the Musikahan Festival, celebrated until February 27. (Tagum City, Philippines)
ON THIS DAY...

1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.

1828 – Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.

1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.

1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.

1874 – The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.

1878 – The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.

1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.

1918 – The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.

1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.

1948 – NASCAR is incorporated.

1970 - Jackson 5 make TV debut on "American Bandstand"

1972 – The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.

1981 - NASA launches Comstar D-4

1990 - "The Batman Theme" by Danny Elfman wins Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition at 32nd Annual Grammy Awards

1995 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

1996 - Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit

2014 - 10 words from the 15th C Voynich manuscript have been decoded

Quote of the day:
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.”
~  Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer, The Paris Review, interview

As the girls have gotten older, they don’t ask to have books read to them as often, although reading is still very much a part of the bedtime routine.  I remember my kids going through this phase, when toys and TV seemed much more interesting than the written word.  I remember being very worried, concerned enough to discuss it with Dr Wall, our pediatrician.  A very old-fashioned doctor, he leaned back and considered me for a moment, then asked “Do you read for enjoyment?”  Of course I said that I did, and he inquired if my kids ever saw me reading a book.   Obviously they had, and then he told me that sooner or later, they would eventually return to reading as a pastime because they saw me doing it and it obviously was something I really enjoyed.  But my concern with my granddaughters is that with the advent of iPads and phones and digital books, they don’t actually see anyone reading a book for the most part.  I have been at pains to show them that when Grandmom is staring at her phone, she is actually reading, but I have to admit, I am not always doing so.  I know both of their parents read, especially when studying or researching, but they too are often on a laptop or other device.

 

Their parents take them to the library, have always read to them and the girls have many books of their own!  I’m sure it will be fine and the girls will discover the escape route into a wider, more fantastical world eventually, but the impact of digital books it is one of those things I ponder about in the odd moments….
Permalink | Thursday, February 21, 2019