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Carol H Tucker
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time is NOT on my side....
Today is the 3rd day of the 43rd week, the 25th day of the 10th month, the 299th day of 2016 [with only 60 shopping days left until Christmas], and:
- Chucky, The Notorious Killer Doll Day
- International Artist Day
- National Cartoonists Against Crime Day
- National Greasy Foods Day
- Punk for a Day Day
- Simchat Torah
- Sourest Day
- World Pasta Day
- World Pizza Makers Day
ON THIS DAY: In 285 (or maybe 286) Saints Crispin and Crispinian were executed during the reign of Diocletian; they are now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers. In 1616 Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog made the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast. In1861 the Toronto Stock Exchange was created. In 1938 the Archbishop of Dubuque denounced swing music as "a degenerated musical system ... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell". In 2001 Microsoft released the Windows XP operating system. In 2016 NASA Voyager I is 19 hrs 00 mins 03 secs of light-travel time from Earth (2016:298:120000:1L) and Voyager II is 15 hrs 37 mins 31 secs of light-travel time from Earth (2016:298:000000:2L).
Time has been on my mind a lot these past couple of days, and I have been reflecting both on the days of yore and times to come. Like Bilbo,
“… I sit beside the fire and think
Of how the world will be
When winter comes without a spring
That I shall ever see
…I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know….”
What triggered all this? The ending of the year? Perhaps. It could be that the falling leaves and the winding down of 2016 [which has been marked by the passing of many entertainers from back in the day] is having an impact. Fall was always my favorite time of year – school starting, the humidity of the summer giving way to crisp air, the colors, the foods and holidays, the anticipation of Christmas [although I will admit the holidays were more fun when I was a kid and just enjoying them].
I think it is linked to my birthday, which I have often arbitrarily blamed for the spring doldrums since it is in April. You see, I was writing a post for this blog claiming that I have worked longer than anyone in my family or amongst my friends when I stopped to figure out two things. First, I did a five-year stint as a homemaker while the kids were little [altho I could shave off two years by claiming teaching for Diet Workshop counts as working] and I wanted to make sure that was factored in. Second, Frank worked steadily all his life with only a brief hiatus after his second stroke and I wanted to figure out how long he had worked – 51 ½ years. To calculate that, I had to figure out how old he was exactly when he died – 66 years, 6 months and 10 days. And because my mind works in odd ways I guess, I immediately figured out when I would be that exact age, a landmark that I passed this past Wednesday, October 12th [at 9:35 AM just for the record]. It gave me a very odd feeling – I am now older than Frank was when he died 12 years ago. I keep thinking about that every time I have trouble getting myself out in the morning, just as he did that last morning… Just like “Uncle Joe, … [I’m] a movin' kind of slow….”.
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