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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 4th day of the 46th week, the 16th day of the 11th month, the 321st day of 2016, and:
- Geographic Information Systems Day
- Have a Party With Your Bear Day
- International Day for Tolerance
- National Button Day
- National Educational Support Professionals Day
- National Fast Food Day
ON THIS DAY: in 1272, while travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward became King of England upon Henry III's death, but he doesn't return to England for nearly two years to assume the throne. In 1686 representatives of Louis XIV of France and James II of England signed the Treaty of Whitehall (Treaty of American Neutrality) agreeing that Continental conflict would not disrupt peace and neutrality in New France and New England; prohibited each nation from fishing or trading in the other's territory, and also forbid each power from aiding Indian tribes who may be at war with the other. In 1822 Missouri trader William Becknell arrived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail. In 1852 the English astronomer John Russell Hind discovered the asteroid 22 Kalliope. In 1855 David Livingstone became the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe. In 1938 LSD was first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel. In 1965 the Soviet Union launched the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet. In 1959 the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music" opened on Broadway. In 1973 NASA launched Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral for an 84-day mission. In 1974 the Arecibo message was broadcast from the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico -- it was aimed at the current location of the globular star cluster Messier 13 some 25,000 light years away, but the message will reach empty space by the time it finally arrives since the cluster will have changed position.
They didn’t have the trenta cups at the Starbucks I go to this morning. So why did I drop my keys on the counter and look disgusted? Big deal – venti costs less, right? After all, after two days of no lemonade for my drink, they had gone to the store and gotten some. It wasn’t me that they told they couldn’t make her drink because they didn’t have the powder. And I hadn’t learned that there was no brown sugar for the oatmeal yet. I could make excuses – I didn’t feel good, the line was moving very slow, etc – but the fact of the matter is my reaction made it clear that I was unhappy because my expectations have not been met.. I felt rather bad about not leaving the cashier in his usual upbeat, cheerful mood, and I will probably choose to be back there tomorrow spending money because it takes more than one incident to turn me off, but I have options if I don’t want to return.
Last week, the day after the election, a lady I work near came up very perkily and asked how I was. “Been better” was my reply and when asked what was wrong, I told her Trump. She immediately walked away because my reaction made it clear I was unhappy. We spoke later – she is angry that more folks aren’t as happy as she is over the results. “Give him a chance” she told me, and reminded me that “they” had put up with eight years of Obama. It sounded reasonable, and yet after a week of angry denials that he said/did something despite actual videos to the contrary, too little transparency [no tax returns, and a VP who will actually run things for him], too much negative rhetoric about walls and “them” and hate, topped off with a transition team I don’t want anywhere near the bastions of power and I have to say that this president-elect has not met my expectations. But unlike Starbucks, I cannot simply stop interacting with the President of the United States – even if I lived in another country, the actions of this man will have an impact. I still have a choice; they aren’t any easy ones and I doubt how much impact they will have, but such as they are, I will make them. I will not deny that he won the Electoral College while losing the popular vote and I will support the peaceful transfer of power. I will not pretend that the violation of norms is okay, even though political correctness makes my teeth ache at times, and I will continue to assert we are better together than marginalized. I will not condemn every single person who voted for Trump as a racist or deplorable, I will not unfriend anyone for simply disagreeing with me, and I will not be quiet.. I will wear a safety pin. I will register as a Muslim if something like that is somehow implemented even if I have to wear a badge, and encourage every single person I know to do the same. And I will vote every chance that I get.
And I will go on with life one day at a time, because that is what most of us do, neh?
Now excuse me, I need to go get a venti salted caramel mocha frappuccino double-blended.
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