The earth is now flying through the time/space designated as September 16, 2020. A tough area of space if you happen to live on the Gulf coast around Florabama. Sally is messing you up this morning. Teddy is also coming and we have another soon to be hurricane behind that one. Keep your fingers firmly crossed. Here’s the good news: next year will be worse. That’s the way Climate Change works. But that is the future and we’re in the present so let’s party! Today is Anne Bradstreet Day. Anne said, “Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.” Lot of truth in that. It’s also National Guacamole Day, National Collect Rocks Day, Remember The Victims Of Katrina Day, Cinnamon Raisin Bread Day, World Play-Doh Day and Mayflower Day. I think I’ll raise my glass to Anne Bradstreet today. She was the first famous women poet in the New World. This day in 1630 when the Massachusetts village of Shawmut changes its name to Boston. On this day in 1848 slavery is abolished in all French territories. On this day in 1893, the Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma, opens white settlement homesteaders. In 1920 on this day the “Wall Street bombing” occurs at 12:01 when a horse-drawn wagon explodes on Wall Street, New York, killing 38 and injuring 143. The perpetrators were never caught. Hitler, on this day in 1941 orders that for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavs should be killed. Today is B.B. King’s birthday (1925). He said, “Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.” This is also the day that Mary Travers (Peter, Paul & Mary) stopped living in 2009. She said, “Folk Music has always contained a concern for the human condition”. That’s pretty accurate and all you have to do is listen to some of her songs. Another post done. It’s been an interesting trip through time and space. Abide.
