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Carol H Tucker
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Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
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Today is the 2nd day of the 24th week, the 12th day of the 6th month, the 163rd day of 2017, and:
- Crowded Nest Awareness Day
- Ghost in the Machine Day
- Independence Day: the Philippines from Spain in 1898
- Little League Girls Baseball Day
- Loving Day
- Magic Day
- National Automotive Service Professionals Day
- National Jerky Day
- National Peanut Butter Cookie Day
- Red Rose Day
- Superman [or Man of Steel] Day
- World Against Child Labor Day
ON THIS DAY: In 910 the Hungarians defeated the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child at the Battle of Augsburg using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors. In 1240 at the instigation of Louis IX of France, an inter-faith debate, known as the Disputation of Paris, started between a Christian monk and four rabbis. In 1772 French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men were killed by Māori in New Zealand In 1550 the city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) was founded by King Gustav I of Sweden. In 1939 the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, NY. In 1942 Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday. In 1947 the first broadcast of radio show Sergeant Preston of The Yukon which continued until 1955 (and on TV from 1955-1958); show created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, originators of The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet In 1954 – Pope Pius XII canonised Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church [until 2017 when Jacinta and Francisco Marto, aged 10 and 9 at the time of their deaths, were declared saints]. In 1967 the US Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declared all US state laws which prohibited interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. In 1979 Bryan Allen won the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross. In 2017 NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 07 mins 07 sec of light-travel time from Earth
Writing prompt #163:
Set it Free: Think of a time when you had to let someone or something go to be free…did they come back?
Nice prompt for this time of year when graduations and weddings has one harkening back to old times and places. My knee jerk response was simply to state “no”.
That is a true statement because there was more than one person I loved and let go and never were they a part of my life again. But as I was pondering, the question changed – did I set them “free”, or did I finally acknowledge that my expectations of them were not being fulfilled because they were MY expectations not THEIR state of being? [or visa versa in a couple of cases[ In relationships – and one could argue that all interactions are about relationships – perception is key. What I thought was an empathetic resonance of spirit [along with the subsequent physical longings] could’ve been to them a simple transaction so to speak without deep involvement. And what if they did return to my life? As Heraclitus is said to have said: “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” There would have to be a new relationship forged, and I think that in most cases the weight of the past one with all its expectations and memories might rather form a hindrance than a solid foundation.
But I still wonder about them now and then – how did their lives turn out? Do they ever think of me or even remember that once we were involved? Once in a while I hear from someone who wonders the same thing and we get to exchange stories about our separate journeys.
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