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I yam who I yam....
Today is the 6th day of the 42nd week, the 20th day of the 10th month, the 293rd day of 2017, and:
- Birth of the Bab -- a prophet who foretold the coming of the Bhá’u’lláh, the founder of the Bahá’í faith
- Miss America Rose Day
- National Brandied Fruit Day
- National Call-in Day for Health Reform
- National Mammography Day
- National Pharmacy Buyer Day
- National Suspenders Day
- The International Day of the Air Traffic Controller
- World Osteoporosis Day
- World Student Day
ON THIS DAY:
1720 – Caribbean pirate Calico Jack [born Jack Rackham] is captured by the Royal Navy; he was hung the next day. It appears he is famous mainly for having two female crew members
1818 - Britain and the US sign the Convention of 1818, aka the Treaty of Joint Occupation of Oregon aka the Treaty of London; to improve relations in the wake of the War of 1812; agree that their mutual boundary should run westward from the Lake of Woods (in Minnesota), along the 49th parallel of north latitude to the Rocky Mountains; they also sign a North American Fishing Convention which restores US fishing and curing rights around the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Article 3 provides for joint control of the Oregon country – all of which isn’t quite as straightforward as it sounds
1952 -- Freddy the Pilot was published
1958 -- Freddy and the Dragon was published This was hands down my favorite series of books when I was young. Freddy was written by the same author who gave us Mr. Ed [which was also a TV show that I enjoyed] and he has his own very active fan club and yes I am a member although I have yet to make it to the annual convention. My mother, who monitored my reading pretty closely, had assumed that Freddy was a little boy – much to my adolescent disgust because who wanted to read about a little boy? -- and when she found out he was a pig, she tried unsuccessfully to ban the books as “ridiculous fantasy”. She kinda washed her hands of me after I discovered science fiction and fantasy.
1992 -- The host Toronto Blue Jays beat the Atlanta Braves 3-2 in the first World Series game played outside the United States. Always seemed a bit bombastic of us to claim this is a "world series" when only American teams are playing! That is exactly like the "Miss Universe" title -- why do we think that an Earth gal is all that and a bag of chips?
Picture of the day: The photographer lives near my friend in Las Cruses and takes absolutely stunning pictures of the desert. The juniper in this picture is well over a century old and is now dying
Quote of the day:
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."
~ James Allen (1864 - 1912), British philosophical writer
This quote resonates with me. I firmly believe that I am who I am today because of the choices that I have made. Who I will be tomorrow is based on the choices I am making [or in some cases not making today], and I could not go back and change these choices without changing who I am. It is a common theme in fiction, for example Jean Luc Picard faced this courtesy of Q and Peggy Sue found out that she couldn’t change the past except in small details. My kids once asked me if I would change anything in the past – especially the two marriages that ended in rather acrimonious and contentious divorces – and I told them I would not, because then neither of them would’ve been born and I didn’t want to change that.
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