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Today is the 1st day of the 32nd week, the 7th day of the 8th month, the 220th day of 2016, the approximate midpoint of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and of winter in the Southern Hemisphere, and:
  •  American Family Day
  • Beach Party Day
  • Friendship Day
  • International Forgiveness Day
  • National Doll Day
  • National Kids Day
  • National Lighthouse Day
  • National Sea Serpent Day
  • Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day
  • Professional Speakers Day
  • Purple Heart Day --  in 1782 George Washington ordered the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
  • Raspberries 'n Cream Day
  • Sister's Day
In 322 BC Athens and Macedonia fought the Battle of Crannon -- Athens lost and the battle marked the end of city-state freedom from Macedonian hegemony. In 1944 IBM brought out the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). In 1947 Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.  In 1974 French stuntman Philippe Petit walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. 




"I know that you believe that you understood 

what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize 

that what you heard is not what I meant."

~ Robert McCloskey





Ran across this quote this morning and it triggered a memory....  In junior high school [8th grade actually], I stumbled upon a book in the library that changed forever how I thought about communication -- Language in Action by Hayakawa.    I didn't quite understand what I was reading back then of course, and I have had to go back and re-read that work a couple of times, but I grasped the essential fact of semantics, that words and phrases could mean different things to different people.  It was an eye-opener for that teenager and it is an insight that has actually kept me from acquiring even more emotional baggage than I did.  It led to my realization that "truth" was not immutable, that different versions of the same story did NOT mean that someone was lying because not only could they have perceived something differently, they could be communicating it differently.  I articulated it as "there are three sides to every story:  mine, yours, and what happened."  [in all fairness I have two exe's who disagree with that rather vociferously].  That led to a firmly held conviction that there is no such thing as an historical fact [a revelations shared by other historians] because even eye-witness accounts are suspect due to the limits of memory AND communication.



Something to think about the next time you are triggered by a comment online, a story you watched or read, a disconnect with a loved one, neh?



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