Spaceship Earth will travel the 1.603 million miles through space designated as April 21st, 2021 today. It’s a good thing that space is pretty much empty of large objects. Today has some interesting events. It’s Big Word Day. The biggest one I can find is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia which is the fear of big words. I’m not making this up. It’s Bulldogs are Beautiful Day, Keep Off the Grass Day, San Jacinto Day (last battle of the Texas Revolution), National Tea Day, National Chocolate-Covered Cashews Day and World Creativity and Innovation Day. I’ll go with chocolate covered cashews. On this day in 753 BC Romulus and Remus found Rome. On this day in 1649 Maryland Toleration Act passed in the American colony, allowing freedom of worship for Christians but sentencing to death anyone who rejected the divinity of Jesus. That deserves a WTF? In 1855, the 1st train crossed the Mississippi River’s on the 1st bridge which spans the Mississippi River between Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa. Finally, in 1986 Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone’s vault on TV and finds nothing. I remember watching that show. This is John Muir’s birthday. He was called the “Father of the National Parks”. He was also an author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, and glaciologist. John said, “I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.” This is the day in 1946 John Maynard Keynes died. He was the founder of Keynesian economics. John said, “The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.” He also said, “It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.” It’s time to excogitate (to plan) my day (another big word used). Abide. ever live. Abide.
