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Carol H Tucker
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Today is the 4th day of the 34th week, the 24th day of the 8th month, the 237th day of 2016 [and there are only 122 shopping days left until Christmas], and: - Can Opener Day – wow opening cans before there was a can opener must’ve been… interesting, neh?
- Independence Day -- Ukraine from the Soviet Union in 1991
- International Day Against Intolerance, Discrimination and Violence Based on Musical Preferences, Lifestyle and Dress Code
- International Strange Music Day ((define “strange”))
- National Knife Day
- National Peach Pie Day
- National Waffle or Waffle Iron Day
- Pluto Demoted Day – now they are going after super novas too!
- Shooting Star Day
- Vesuvius Day -- (note: this traditional date has been challenged, and many scholars believe that the event occurred on October 24 – ah the solidity of historical “facts”!)
- Wayzgoose Day - tied to the feast day of Bartholomew the Apostle and one of those days that celebrate the ending of summer, this one specific to printers and books it would appear
- Weather Complaint Day
- William Wilberforce Day
On this day in 49 BC Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio was defeated in the Battle of the Bagradas by the Numidians and committed suicide to avoid capture. In 79 Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae in volcanic ash. In 394 the Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, was written. In 1456 the printing of the Gutenberg Bible was completed. In 1690 Job Charnock of the East India Company established a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city until the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city has no birthday in 2003. In 1875 Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim the English Channel. In 1891 Thomas Edison patented the motion picture camera. In 1909 workers started pouring concrete for the Panama Canal. In 1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey in about 19 hours). In 1968 France became the world's fifth thermonuclear power as it exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific. In 1995 Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America. In 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefined the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a "dwarf planet".
There are times when you just cannot stop and take a picture, not even in this day and age of smart phones. This morning, while stopped in traffic, I was gazing at a low flowering tree and one branch just hung there in perfect relief against the dark foliage about it. The air was clear, the light was refulgent, the flowers fully opened, the leaves varying from full green to dried looking and it was just a vignette to take your breath away. And then, before I could move or think to grab my iPhone, the traffic moved and the moment was lost forever…. except for the vivid imprint in my mind. What I saw was apparently a pale pink hydrangea peegee shrub [altho it looked like a tree to me] growing in the wild.
I remember a similar incident from about 24 years ago, long before the advent of phones taking pictures. I was commuting to work one winter morning, going the back roads from Randallstown to Ellicott City even though there had been a fresh snowfall. I always used the back roads even in bad weather to avoid the traffic and because I have a lot more confidence in my ability to drive in bad conditions than I do my fellow travelers. It was that gentle part of the morning when dawn was just lightening the sky, and I came around a curve and stopped. Just stopped. [It was pretty safe to do that in that place since it was very seldom travelled and I was the only car about] There before me was a solitary pine tree right next to the road, about 6’ tall, that the property owner had decorated with Christmas lights. There was nothing near it, and the lights were glowing softly on the fresh snow and I rolled down my window and breathed in the fresh air and stared at it, wishing with all my heart that I had a camera. I can close my eyes and still see that image in my mind’s eye and feel the calm and awe of the beauty of that moment wash over me, replete with the gentle sounds of morning coming…. The tree stayed decorated for a couple of weeks and I always admired it when I passed, but that fleeting, crepuscular moment never occurred again.
More than a memory, It is possible that a picture wouldn’t do these moment justice either – a snapshot no matter how carefully and artfully captured does not include the sounds, the smells, the feel. And the word pictures I have tried to share do not adequately convey the impact of these moments now frozen in time forever, outside time and space, and irrevocably a part of what makes me ME.
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