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Today is the 3rd day of the 23rd week, the 6th day of the 6th month, the 157th day of 2017, and:
- Atheist Pride Day
- D-Day
- Drive-in Movie Day – 84 years ago the first drive-in theater opened in Camden, New Jersey, US
- National Applesauce Cake Day
- National Eyewear Day
- National Gardening Exerise Day
- National Higher Education Day
- National Hunger Awareness Day
- National Yo-yo Day
- Russian Language Day
ON THIS DAY: In 913 Emperor Alexander III died of exhaustion while playing the game tzykanion (Byzantine name for polo) and was succeeded by his 8-year-old nephew Constantine VII. In 1822 Alexis St. Martin was accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion. In 1844 the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London. In 1844 the Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opened. In 1946 the Basketball Association of America wass founded in New York City, the precursor to the modern National Basketball Association. In 1954 the sculpture of Yuriy Dolgorukiy was displayed in Moscow, becoming one of the main monuments of that city. In 1962 Producer George Martin met The Beatles for the 1st time -- they recorded "Besame Mucho" with Pete Best still on drums In 1964 under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany were terminated -- they never resume. In1971 Soyuz 11 was launched. In 2004 Tamil was established as a "classical language" by the President of India, Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament. In 2017 NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 06 mins 36 sec and Voyager II is 15 hrs 46 mins 52 secs of light-travel time from Earth
Quote of the day:
“Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
One thing that I have been mocked for is my statement that I do not harbor regrets – the riposte to that statement being that I am somehow insensitive. indifferent or just unaware to the wake my actions have caused and therefore am a lesser lifeform. Truth be told, no one can go through life without accumulating regrets even if you classify them as “things you wish you had done differently”. I just try not to let them haunt me when it is really the outcome that I would alter, not my choices. Friday being Frank’s birthday, and one of my major regrets being my actions that last morning, regret is very much on my mind.
While thinking about regrets and In talking about the old neighborhood in emails and the changes to the area, I got to reminiscing about the trotter race course that used to be across Martin’s BLVD from where we lived in Oak Grove. Now I was horse mad for many many years, not that my parents had the wherewithal to let me take riding lessons. I read every single thing I could get my hands on and I had little plastic horse models that I played with far more often than I did the dolls. I guess I was in 1st grade or so when my father took me over to watch the horses exercise – a rare father/daughter outing. One of the jockeys came over and was chatting with my father, then offered to take me up and around the track. The horse looked so big to me, and it seemed like it was going so fast and I didn’t know the man…. I was either too shy or too afraid [or both] to go despite my father’s urging.
I have always regretted that. I missed out on a very exciting little jaunt, didn’t get to make friends with the horses , and Dad was disgusted. He refused to take me back and I remember hearing him tell my mother that he just plain didn’t like just a spiritless kid that he had nothing in common with. Poor Dad – wiry, athletic, gregarious trying to make sense of the pudgy little girl who would rather read than play and didn’t get along with the other kids -- but that was the first time that I remember hearing him gripe that he just couldn’t figure me out. How much different things might have been if I had been more intrepid! I wouldn’t classify this as an irrevocable choice, but these are the little, everyday things that make up the tapestry of our lives. Perhaps if I went back in time and changed this the results would not be salutatory at all, but it remains in my memory as something I would change if I could.
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