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Spring may have sprung, but....
Today is the 3rd day of the 12th week, the 21st day of the 3rd month, the 80th day of 2017, and:
- Afghanistan Day:
- Independence Day: Namibia from South Africa in 1990
- International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrmination
- International Day of Forests and The Tree (by proclamation of the United Nations General Assembly)
- International Noruz Day
- Memory Day
- National Agriculture Day
- National California Strawberry Day
- National Common Courtesy Day
- National Day of Action on Syringe Exchange
- National Flower Day
- National Fragrance Day
- National French Bread Day
- National Renewable Energy Day
- National Single Parents' Day
- National Teenager Day
- Spring Fairy Fun Day
- Twitter Day – launched in 2006 with the first tweet by co-founder Jack Dorsey
- WE Day
- World Down Syndrome Day
- World Poetry Day
- World Puppetry Day
- World Social Work Day
ON THIS DAY: In 537 King Vitiges attempted to assault the northern and eastern city walls of Rome, but was repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the Vivarium, by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and Peranius. In630 Emperor Heraclius returned the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem. In 1800 with the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII was crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché. In 1804 Code Napoléon was adopted as French civil law. In 1844 the Bahá'í calendar begins -- this is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar and is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz. In 1871 journalist Henry Morton Stanley began his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone. In 1935 Reza Shah Pahlavi formally requested the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran. In 1965 NASA launched Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes. In 1999 Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. In 2000 Pope John Paul II made the first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
Spring is supposed to bring a sense of renewal and of hope as the winter fades, albeit sometimes Old Man Winter leaves more gracefully than he is doing this year, and Nature revives. You know the schtick – birds chirping, flowers blooming, trees’ new leaves swaying in the breezes and even the rain is refreshing.
Yeah, right.
Of the four seasons, Spring has always been my least favorite. I’m not into gardening and the advent of the growing season is pretty much a source of indifference to me – in fact, it is the beginning of my allergies running rampant as those breezes bring a generous measure of pollen floating about. I find it an awkward transition from winter garb to lighter wear, difficult to adjust in an abode that can only do heat or A/C instead of toggling [resulting in some very uncomfortable sleeping situations], and who’s idea was this whole spring cleaning thing anyway?
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