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Today is the 5th day of the 11th week, the 15th day of the 3rd month, the 74th day of 2018, and: 
  • Absolutely Incredible Kid Day
  • Buzzards Day
  • Companies That Care Day
  • Dumbstruck Day
  • Everything You Think is Wrong Day
  • Ides of March
  • International Day of Action Against Canadian Seal Slaughter
  • International Day Against Police Brutality
  • International Eat an Animal for PETA Day
  • National Brutus Day
  • National Farm Rescuer Day
  • National Peanut Lovers Day
  • National Pears Helene Day
  • National Shoe the World Day
  • Oranges and Lemons Day
  • True Confessions Day
  • World Consumer Rights Day
On this day in ...

44BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.

1493 – Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.

1564 – Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes "jizya" (per capita tax historically levied annually by Islamic states on certain non-Muslim subjects—dhimmis—permanently residing in Muslim lands under Islamic law).

1778 - James Cook reaches the west coast of Vancouver Island with ships HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery, on the way to search for a North West Passage from the Pacific

1819 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel wins a contest at the Académie des Sciences in Paris by proving that light behaves like a wave. The Fresnel integrals, still used to calculate wave patterns, silence skeptics who had backed the particle theory of Isaac Newton.

1906 – Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.

1956 - The Lerner and Loewe musical "My Fair Lady" opened on Broadway.

1967 - Special joint committee of the Senate and House of Commons unanimously recommends that the government be authorized to adopt forthwith the music for "O Canada" composed by Calixa Lavallée as the music of the National Anthem of Canada

1972 -"The Godfather," Francis Ford Coppola's epic gangster movie based on the Mario Puzo novel and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premiered in New York.

1985 – The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corp. of Massachusetts

 

In the category of things I didn’t know or think about -- turns out every month has “ides” as it is simply the middle of the month.  March’s ides just get more notice because of the warning Caesar received and ignored .  And today is the earliest day on which Palm Sunday can fall, while April 18 is the latest; celebrated on the sixth Sunday of Lent.

 

Yesterday was the 5th anniversary of my mother’s death and  I’ve been thinking a lot about mother/daughter relationships lately.  I’m not always quite sure how to interact with my two daughters because I don’t have a good model to work from – after an extremely contentious relationship in my formative and teen years, I moved out of my mother’s home and we quite literally didn’t speak for the next 17 years.  In that time I got married three times and had two kids.  Mom worked, had a mild heart attack, moved into a new apartment, took art classes, and went on a lot of bus trips. For a time, after Frank brokered a reunion, my mother and I spent time together although we were never the type to call and just chat.  Then when the apartment complex refused to renew her lease, we tried moving into together – that was a huge mistake and acerbated her descent into dementia.  After she was hospitalized and then placed in assisted living, we managed to be frigidly polite with each other, but I only saw her once or twice a year.  When she decided she was done, she stopped eating and drinking and passed away quietly in her bed, leaving me to figure out the funeral details [although she had paid for much of it in advance.] and settle what was left of her affairs.  I have a few of her things in the apartment, things that she treasured enough to keep with her even when she was down to just one room, but when I gaze at them I have no sense of her as a person, just the mother with whom I never could quite connect along with a wistful wish it could’ve been different and a fierce determination that my kids will have better memories of their mother.

 

 

*whispers*  why yes, since you ask, I do worry about it…..


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