I’ve decided that September 10, 2021 will be an excellent day. I’m assuming that no accidents, acts of God or Mother Nature will rain on my parade. If so, I get to decide what kind of day this will be. I chose Happy. And, if something happens to go wrong, I can always Blame It on the Large Hadron Collider Day which is the largest particle accelerator on earth. It also happens to be the International Creepy Boston Dynamics Robotic Horse Day, International Make UP Day, National Hot Dog Day, Sew Be It Day, TV Dinner Day, National Swap Ideas Day and World Suicide Prevention Day. How long has it been since you’ve eaten a Banquet TV Dinner? Now to what happened on this day. On this day in 1349 the Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death. They were blamed for the Black Death. On this day in 1776, George Washington asked for a spy volunteer and Nathan Hale stepped forward. This is the day in 1858 that John Holden hit the 1st recorded home run (Brooklyn vs NY). In 1894 on this day London taxi driver George Smith was the first person to be fined for drunk driving. This is the day in 1913 that the Lincoln Highway opened as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway. I-80 is now roughly where it was. Today is Mary Oliver’s birthday. She was born in 1933 and was a poet, writer who won a Pulitzer Prize. Mary said, “Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields. Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness”. I do like her attitude. This is also the day that Emilie du Chatelet, French philosopher, and partner to Voltaire died in childbirth in 1749. She has few quotes listed. I like this one: “Let us choose for ourselves our path in life and let us try to strew that path with flowers.” I think she means a good attitude when she says flowers. Now, I’m done for today. I hope you decide to have a good day. Abide.
