It is the 22nd day of December 2020. That would be 12.22.2020. We are getting really close to the magical time of the year we call Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I know the pandemic will play hell with your plans but you do have memories, old videos and facetime. I can still remember my excitement and anticipation from nearly 70 years ago. I can also remember the required taste of Lutefisk. Today’s celebratory are limited. It’s Abilities Day which is about celebrating people with disabilities. It’s National Cookie Exchange Day and National Date Nut Bread Day. That’s it. It’s off to the way back machine: In 1882 on this date the 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison. That man was full of ideas. On this date in 1944 Germans demand surrender of American troops (101st Airborne) at Bastogne, Belgium to which General Anthony Clement McAuliffe replied “Nuts”. In 1967 “The Graduate” American starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, was released. This is the birthday in 1639 of the French writer Jean Racine who said, “There are no secrets that time does not reveal”. This is the day in 1880 that the writer George Eliot died. Her real name was Mary Ann Evans. She said, “It is never to late to be what you might have been” and “Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them”. I like this quote at Christmas. Enough said. Abide.
