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Today is the 5th day of the 41st week, the 13th day of the 10th month, the 287th day of 2016, and:
- English Language Day
- International African Penguin Awareness Day
- International Day for Disaster Reduction
- International Day for Failure
- International Plain Language Day
- International Suit Up Day
- Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day
- National Chess Day
- National No Bra Day
- National Train Your Brain Day
- National Yorkshire Pudding Day
- Silly Sayings Day
- US Navy's Birthday
- World Sight Day
On this dayin 54 Emperor Claudius was poisoned under mysterious circumstances and succeeded by his 17-year-old stepson Nero. In 409 Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees and appeared in Hispania. In 1582, due to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. In 1773 the Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by Charles Messier. In 1775 the US Continental Congress ordered the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy). In 1792, in Washington DC, the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) was laid. In 1881 the first known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends took place. In 1884 the International Meridian Conference voted on a resolution to establish the meridian passing through the Observatory of Greenwich, in London, England, as the initial meridian for longitude. In 1892 Edward Emerson Barnard discovered D/1892 T1, the first comet discovered by photographic means. In 1917 the "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal. In 1958 Paddington Bear, a character from English children's literature, made his debut. In 2016 Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
Quote of the day:
“People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much…But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.”
~ William Maxwell, Time Will Darken It
When I was 8 years old, I learned to my astonishment the world I saw and perceived was unique, it was not and would never be the same world that anyone else saw and perceived, and I embarked on a passionate life-long quest to figure out what “they” saw that I did not. Maybe that was why I became such an avid reader – books always lets you into someone’s head to see the world the way they do. In the normal course of things, when I am interested, involved and immersed, I tend to ask questions – a lot of questions. Comes across as a bit nosey and intrusive at times, but at other times, folks open up and share. I learned a long time ago [the hard way of course] the need not to discuss what I find out through that process . Oddly for one who chatters and interrupts at time, I listen to deep narratives very intently and thoughtfully and those who have imparted their stories to me have found me to be a good listener. I hear them, really hear them. I have also learned [again the hard way] that just because I form an emotional attachment based on the empathy their stories generates does not mean those feelings are reciprocated.
And if no one is about, I have been known to ask questions of myself, although I am not as good at hearing myself. After weeding out the negative talk tapes that inevitably start running in my head, usually those questions have to do with “why”. Sometimes it is asking myself about an intent that just didn’t translate to the way an action was perceived. Sometimes it is trying to find out the reason for a sudden impulse. Sometimes it is a reflection on what the purpose of my life is , or where those beliefs came from, or what assumptions am I making. Over the years of over-thinking, I have learned that if I can cage a nebulous feeling into words, if I can articulate it at least to myself, then I am able to do something about it.
But I have to admit that I am far far better at questions than I am answers when all is said and done….
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