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Carol H Tucker
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Today is the 5th day of the 52nd week, the 29th day of the 12th month, the 364th day of 2016, and:
- Independence Day -- Mongolia from China in 1911
- National Pepper Pot Day
- Still Need to Do Day
- Tick Tock Day
- YMCA Day (the organization not the song) – and do you know what the letters stand for?
- The last new moon of 2016 – in tropical Capricorn
- The sixth night of Hanukkah
- The fifth day of Christmas (Western Christianity)
- The fourth day of Kwanzaa (United States)
ON THIS DAY: In 875 Charles the Bald, King of the Franks, was crowned as Holy Roman Emperor Charles II. In 1798 Upper Canada's Marriage Act recognized marriages not performed by the Anglican Church as legal. In 1851 the first American YMCA opened in Boston, Massachusetts [the song didn't come out until 1978]. In 1860 the Royal Navy launched the HMS Warrior -- with the combination of screw propeller, iron hull and iron armour all previous warships became obsolescent. In 1916 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house BW Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist. In 2003 the last known speaker of Akkala Sami [spoken in Russia] died, rendering the language extinct.
I went back and looked at my blog post made on 12.29.2015. The picture is missing – that is an issue with this blogging platform because we cannot upload photos to it, we have to link to one that is already online and it is an interesting study on how many links get broken over time to see the missing photo. According to CeoExpress, they are going to be making improvements for blogging in the coming year. Hopefully it will permit us to see some analytics as well as making it easier to edit and embed items. Right now I am pretty much limited and I don’t like it. I have considered going elsewhere – Blogger and Penzu are two that I tested – but dagnabit I am a charter member of CeoExpress and would like to keep supporting it! Hopefully the past posts will not be lost as they convert – I have lost so much information due to the process of conversion!
While 2016 was ravenous when it came to celebrities and cultural icons, the only real loss in the family was my cat Kula. He had to be put to sleep in early January at age 16+ when he went into kidney failure. Anyway, it was apparent that one year ago today I viewed the coming new year with hope, and despite the political campaigns, was kinda ignoring the big picture to focus on more immediate personal and family concerns. I have been trying to generate that same hopeful feel for 2017, but it is difficult. DJT, Erdogan, Duterte, Netanyahu, and Kim Jong-un all make the world sound and feel like a more dangerous place than ever before, not to mention Brexit and the refuge issues. DJT, police shootings, hate groups, North Carolina, and rampant income inequity all make my country sound and feel like we are going where I never thought we would go. I am struggling to refocus back to my own life, taking my health seriously, spending time with family, and learning to live alone [except for my cat that is – Panda, another rescue cat 9 years old, joined me on July 2nd].
There is always hope. And we always have a choice, neh? 2017 is a tabula rasa -- may the stories we tell be worthy!
Oh, and to answer the question I asked above: YMCA stands for “Young Men's Christian Association”
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