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another Monday-ish Tuesday
Today is the 3rd day of the 46th week, the 13th day of the 11th month, the 317th day of 2018 [and only 41 shopping days until Christmas], and:
- Actor's Day
- National Indian Pudding Day
- National Mom's and Dad's Day
- National Young Reader's Day
- Sadie Hawkins Day
- Start a Rumor Day
- World Kindness Day
ON THIS DAY IN ...
1841 – James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
1851 – The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle.
1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
1940 – Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre.
1956 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1971 - Space probe Mariner 9 reaches Mars and goes into orbit
1974 – Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror.
1982 – Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport.
1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
1992 – The High Court of Australia rules in Dietrich v The Queen that although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, in most circumstances a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay when an accused is unrepresented.
1997 - The Disney musical "The Lion King" opened on Broadway.
2015 – WT1190F, a temporary satellite of Earth thought to have been space debris from the trans-lunar injection stage of the 1998 Lunar Prospector mission and first discovered on 18 February 2013 by the Catalina Sky Survey, impacts just southeast of Sri Lanka.
Quote of the day:
"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."
~ Christopher Darlington Morley (1890 - 1957), American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
By this measure, alas, I am not a success.
How many times growing up, as you obeyed parents or teachers, did you mutter to yourself, “When I grow up, no one is going to tell me what to do!”? As a kid, it seemed as though life was nothing but rules that covered everything – eating, sleeping, playing, activities, even pooping! There wasn’t any corner of your life where some adult didn’t have an opinion about, or a standard that should be met, unless you retreated into your own head and let loose your imagination. I used to tell myself stories in which the narrative was about me doing what I wanted when I wanted and how I wanted. And I couldn’t wait to grow up so that I could actually be in charge of myself…. I don’t remember at what point reality sunk in for me. Maybe I had an inkling when in high school I started to work part-time and had to deal with the unyielding expectations of a boss. Maybe it was in college while I struggled with working and going to classes. Maybe when it was when I got pregnant and realized that for the rest of my life, every choice impacted another person who hadn’t asked to join my journey. Of course, I had a choice not to conform -- to stay up all night or to party hearty on school or work nights for example -- but then the consequences of those choices were so blasted onerous and they just wouldn’t dissipate with an exercise of my will. And so I settled into a routine dictated by the needs of family and employment. I wonder sometimes if I made the right call and try to imagine where I could’ve broken out and danced down the road not taken to the beat of a different drummer.
But I will say, thanks to a vibrant and active 2nd Life lived over many decades in the reaches of the mind, I may have grown older but I haven’t become an old lady.
Yet….
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