Ra will soon start this daily trek across our sky as he has been doing for the last 4.5 billion years. This time it’s called October 25, 2021. Yesterday, some of us got a reminder of how fragile life is. If you are empathic, and most of us are, you feel other people pain. We know that life isn’t fair. We also know the importance of love, kindness, and compassion. With that in mind, I’ll start this new day. It’s National I Care About You Day, International Artist Day, National Greasy Foods Day, International Pasta Day and World Pizza Makers Day. I think celebrating I Care About You Day is my best choice. Now to what happened: On this day in 1854 The infamous “Charge of the Light Brigade” during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War was made. Alfred Lord Tennyson in his poem about the event would end each verse with “Into the valley of death rode the six hundred”. In 1870 on this day, postcards were first used. In 1938 on this day, The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounced Swing music as “a degenerated musical system… turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people”, warning that it leads down a “primrose path to hell”. I wonder what he would have thought of Kiss? This is the day in 1964, that Ed Sullivan hosted the Rolling Stones for the first time. I doubt that the archbishop would have liked them. In 1400 on this day the author of the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer died at the age of 57. Many of his quotes have worked their way into our language: “Strike while the iron is hot”, “All good things much come to an end”, “Time and tide wait for no man”, and “Patience is a virtue”. I’ll wrap this post up with one of his lesser know quotes which is “Great peace is found in little busy-ness”. I will stay busy doing what I like to do on this day. Abide.
