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Today is the 4th day of the 49th week, the 6th day of the 12th month, the 340th day of 2017 [you really don’t want to know how many shopping days there are until Christmas – suffice to say you should get cracking], and:
- Independence Day: Finland from Russia in 1917, Bophuthatswana from South Africa in 1977
- Miner's Day
- Mitten Tree Day
- National Gazpacho Day
- National Microwave Oven Day
- National Pawnbrokers Day
- Put on Your Own Shoes Day
- Special Kids Day
- St Nicholas Day
- World Trick Shot Day
ON this day in....
1752 - John Bushell publishes 8-page bound pamphlet for the Nova Scotia government, “An act for the relief of debtors;" the first book published in Canada
1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh, as three volumes. The encyclopedia grew in size: the second edition was 10 volumes, and by its fourth edition (1801–1810) it had expanded to 20 volumes. The last print version was the 32-volume 2010 edition, which weighs 129 pounds and includes new entries on global warming and the Human Genome Project
1877 – The first edition of The Washington Post, founded by Stilson Hutchins, is published. Initially a four-page organ of the Democratic Party, it was sold in 1889 and became known as a conservative paper.
2006 – NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
Quote of the day:
"In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force love, you don't force falling in love, you don't force being in love - you just become. I don't know how to say that in English, but you just feel it."
~ Juan Pablo Galavis, American-born Venezuelan former professional soccer midfielder/forward, who retired in 2008. In 2013, he was chosen as the first Latino star of the ABC-TV reality show The Bachelor [he didn't end up marrying the one he picked]
I think about love a lot around this time of year. Wasn’t something that I noodled when I was married and I suspect that I rather took for granted that things would continue on between us as we walked down the years together, so being widowed was a bit of a shock, which since Frank died on December 16th, explains why I think about it now. I became sensitive to how relationships grow and often talk about levels of emotional investment, or degrees of connection, drawing on my observations to pontificate that expectations and perceptions can torpedo a promising relationship pretty quickly. In world [AKA Second Life], where everything seems to be on hyper speed, I have come to realize that there are those for whom “falling in love” is actually a lifestyle [or hobby or obsession – pick a word], which explains why some folks get married or collared in world multiple times to different people with neither ring nor collar lasting very long before they are off to experience the roller coaster rid of falling in love again with someone new. That’s not my thing, it takes me a while to get comfortable enough to become intimate with someone even virtually – which I guess makes me a little out of step with today’s action – and I have always felt that as a romantic partner, I have to grow on people rather than attract them from the outset. Those two articles about “slow love” were something that I bookmarked a while back and the idea really appeals to me. I don’t need the heady excitement of falling in love, I need the steady state of commitment and affirmation, a mutual dedication of time, focus and energy – a mutual addiction so to speak..
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