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the things no one tells you

Today is the 2nd day of the 15th week, the 10th day of the 4th month, the 100th day of 2017, and:  
  • American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Day
  • Encourage a Young Writer Day
  • Golfer's Day
  • Holy Monday
  • National Cinnamon Crescent Day
  • National Farm Animals Day
  • National Sibling Day
  • Safety Pin Day
  • Salvation Army Founders' Day
Quote of the day:

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing…Consequently two viewpoints are always tenable. The one, how can you improve human nature until you have changed the system? The other, what is the use of changing the system before you have improved human nature? They appeal to different individuals, and they probably show a tendency to alternate in point of time.”

~  George Orwell, “Charles Dickens

ON THIS DAY:  In 428 Nestorius became the Patriarch of Constantinople.  In 837 Halley's Comet made its closest approach to Earth at 5.1 million kilometres or 3.2 million miles).  In 1606 the Virginia Company of London was established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.  In 1710 the Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, came into force in Great Britain.  In 1815 the Mount Tambora volcano began a three-month-long eruption, which lasted until July 15; the eruption ultimately killed 71,000 people and affected Earth's climate for the next two years.  In 1858, after the original Big Ben, a 14.5 ton (32,000 lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster, had cracked during testing, it was recast into the current 13.76 ton (30,300 lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.  In 1872 the first Arbor Day was celebrated in Nebraska.  In 1912 the RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.  In 1916 the Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) was created in New York City.  In 1925 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.  In 1970 Paul McCartney announced he was leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.  In 2001 the Netherlands legalized mercy killings and assisted suicide for patients with unbearable, terminal illness.

 

It’s the kind of Monday where around lunchtime you suddenly realize that you forgot to wear earrings.

When my daughter turned 30 years old, she informed me that I had never told her the necessity of putting on facial lotion to keep wrinkles at bay.  Both of my kids suffered from some pretty severe sunburns when they were out and about in the summer sans Mommy – you see, since I would burn to a crisp pretty quickly, if they were with me they tanned beautifully because they weren’t in the sun for very long at any one time.   Sun block was just becoming a thing back in the day, and not something that worked terribly well and I usually didn’t bother with it – hence my daughter’s remonstrance.

Things no one told me about getting older:   I always thought that farting was optional, and that those who did it in public were a bit rude, but dayum – they just seem to come out on their own and stink up the vicinity with appalling regularity.   There really is a reason for Depends [other than a bad joke] because you sometimes really can’t hold it in anymore.  Not everyone can rock the gray hair – I look perfectly awful with it since it doesn’t go with my florid complexion even a little bit.  By the way, women can lose hair as easily as men and never look “distinguished” without flowing locks and no, wearing a wig does not really help.  Not everyone can wear high heels and fat ankles happen.  And last, although I observed that old folks seemed to talk a lot about doctors and medications, it never ever occurred to me that someday these would be topics for MY discussions with family and friends because that is what I am thinking about, my health and wellbeing!


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