It’s now January 25, 2020. It feels like “just another day”. I’m doing my morning routine just as I did yesterday and the day before. That’s not a good thing. I don’t want to do “just another day”. Days that feel that way pass too quickly. I want to savor each one. We have a new list of special events to consider: It’s A Room Of Your Own Day. This day comes via Virginia Woolf who wrote a poem of the same name. You should have a place to yourself that you can be creative in. I agree. I have one. It’s also the Chinese New Year, National Irish Coffee Day, National Opposites Day and Swap Seeds Day. The opposites day is celebrated by saying one thing and doing another. Should be called Politicians Day. This time of the day, I’ll pick any day with the word Coffee in it. Now to the history section of this post. There’s not much. In 1881 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. Alexander said, “When one door closes, another opens”. In 1924 the 1st Winter Olympic Games open in Chamonix, France. In 1939 Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 for heavyweight boxing title. In 1945 Grand Rapids, Michigan, becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water. Finally, In 1964 on this date, the Beatles get their first US #1, “I Want to Hold your Hand”. This is the birthday (1882) of Virginia Woolf which is the reason that her poem got a day of it’s own. Here’s a quote: “Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.” I take her quote to mean that our mortality provides a reason to treasure each day we live. For Al Capone, this date in 1947 is when his life ended at the age of 48. He said, “You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” True enough if you’re in the business that Al was in. I’ll end this post with a quote from Jules Renard who said, “It is not how old you are, but how you are old.” Today, I refuse to act my age. Now I’m off to live this special, new, once in my lifetime day. Abide.
