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so who are you?
Today is the 4th day of the 14th month, the 4th day of the 4th month, the 94th day of 2018, and:
- 404 Day
- Hug a Newsperson Day
- International Carrot Day
- International Day for Mine Awareness& Assistance in Mine Action
- Jeep 4x4 Day
- National Cordon Bleu Day
- National Day of Hope
- National Grammar Day -- designated in 2008 and established by Martha Brockenbrough, author of "Things That Make Us [SIC]" and founder of the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar
- National Tell a Lie Day
- National Walking Day
- Paraprofessional Appreciation Day
- Victims of Violence Wholly Day
- Vitamin C Day
- Walk Around Things Day
- Whole Grain Sampling Day
- World Rat Day
On this day in ...
51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia -- a Herculian Guard of the Roman Emperor Galerius Maximian who converted to Christianity and was immediately imprisoned and executed
852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what are now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
1519 – Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.
1837 – The city of Chicago is incorporated.
1966 – In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is "more popular than Jesus now".
1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
2018 - NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 34 mins 49 secs of light-travel time from Earth. Each day, Voyager 1 travels ~1,474,000 km, & I travel ~1,338,000 km farther from the Sun, while Earth travels ~2,573,000 km around the Sun. That's why it seems to get closer at certain times of year
Quote of the day:
“To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage
There is a singer [Nad Gough -- while not one of the best vocalists in world, he has an earthy vibe coupled with a buoyant sense of showmanship and some original works interspersed with the covers] in Second Life who won me over completely when he sang “who do you be when you don’t want to be who they want you to be?” Like Stevenson, Nad seemed to be saying the essential “you” has to transcend the roles that life forces you into. You know, the categories we all are defined by – here is a list of some of the ones that I have fit into: daughter, niece, granddaughter, cousin, friend, opponent, wife, mother, student, worker bee, lover, executive, ex, Catholic, free agent, speaker, fan …. Those are the ones that I can come up with quickly -- you get the idea and I am quite sure the list that you have is just as long. Every single one of these roles has definitions, expectations, and responsibilities that from the time you are born to the time that you die crowd about you, obscuring who you actually are..
And who am I? I am the sum total of my choices made over the years. Sometimes I fit in the definitions of the various categories, but I think more often I did not. Sometimes I met the expectations, sometimes I did not. Most of the time I feel I met the responsibilities, but not all of the time and there are those who would argue with me on how well I did. But each time I made a choice, and I have lived with the outcomes and that is how I continue to interact with the world at large.
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