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Today is February 1st and a twelfth of the year is gone already.    Don’t know who it was who first commented that “the days are long, but the years are short” but they nailed it.   I hung this poem in my kid’s room, but it didn’t stop the passage of time or me concentrating on “stuff” that needed doing at the time….
 
….
The picture books are put away,
There are no longer games to play,
No goodnight kiss, no prayers to hear...
That all belongs to yesteryear.
 
My hands, once busy, now are still.
The days are long and hard to fill.
I wish I could go back and do
The little things you asked me to.
 
~Author Unknown
 
That ending always grabs me.  And so, today is: 
  • Car Insurance Day
  • Change Your Password day
  • Decorating with Candy day
  • GI Joe day
  • Hula in the Coola day  - so grab that grass skirt, find a lei, set yourself up with coconut or pineapple drinking cups and definitely use a space heater if you are in the grip of winter and dream of tropical sunsets and warm tropical nights…
  • National Baked Alaska day
  • National Freedom day – commemorating the signing of the 13th amendment to the US constitution by Abraham Lincoln in 1865
  • National Serpent day
  • Robinson Crusoe day  you know, he tried to go back after he got a taste of the real world….
  • Spunky Old Broads day
  • International Face & Body Art day

In 481, the Vandal king Huneric organizes a conference between Catholic and Arianbishops at Carthage, but shortly afterwards, he started persecuting the Catholics, removing their bishops from office and confiscating church property.
 
In 2003 the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard, the third horrific tragedy for NASA  that reminded us venturing into space is dangerous.


 

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