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Carol H Tucker

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I really thought we'd be further along than we are...

Today is the 5th day of the 4th week, the 24th day of the 1st month, the 24th day of 2019, and: 
  • Beer Can Appreciation Day
  • Belly Laugh Day
  • Clashing Clothes Day
  • International Mobile Phone Recycling Day
  • Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day
  • National "Just Do It" Day
  • National Compliment Day
  • National Eskimo Pie Patent Day
  • National Lobster Thermidor Day
  • National Peanut Butter Day
  • Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day
  • Women's Healthy Weight Day
 

ON THIS DAY IN ...

1848 – James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento, triggering the California Gold Rush

1857 – The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first fully fledged university in South Asia.

1908 - The first Boy Scout troop was organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell, who also publishes "Scouting for Boys" as a manual for self-instruction in outdoor skills and self-improvement

1916 – In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.  (( there's a decision I'll bet a lot of folks would like to see SCOTUS reconsider! ))

1918 – The Gregorian calendar is introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars effective February 14(NS)

1925 - Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island

1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1984 – Apple Computer places the Macintosh personal computer on sale in the United States.

1993 - Soyuz TM-16 launches

1986 - The Voyager 2 space probe swept past Uranus, coming within 50,679 miles of the seventh planet from the sun.

2004 - NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars three weeks after its identical twin, Spirit.

 

Quote of the day:
"By extinguishing the fires of greed, hatred, and delusion, we are transforming our emotional range. Emotions such as kindness, generosity, compassion, confidence, and gladness for the good fortune of others continue to function and are even enhanced by being uncovered."
~ Andrew Olendzki, “Pinch Yourself

I know I am a pack-rat.   I know that I keep things that others would cast away, especially older things, feeling that somehow someone should be hanging onto these little bits of history.  And I know most of what I am saving will be discarded as clutter.  Why do you think antiques and old papers, books, letters et al are so valuable?  Because it is rare for such things to survive the cleansing that happens when folks have to downsize, when the next generation takes charge and doesn’t want old “stuff” around. 

I have come to realize I had hoped that old ways of thinking would also be cast off as clutter.  I had hoped that as a society we would become progressively more inclusive, more tolerant, more caring as each new generation comes forth and old stereotypes and prejudices would be thrust into a mental garbage heap.  That is the real reason I personally reacted with such dismay to the pictures of young torchbearers shouting in Virginia or young students smirking snidely at a Native American elder.  That is the real reason I hate the casual cruelty of Calvinism so evident in “trickle down” economics, couched in the familiar screeds against “socialism”. 

 

No, we didn’t start the fire, but I thought we were doing a better job of putting it out
Permalink | Thursday, January 24, 2019