It’s December 30th, 2021. We’re getting ready to turn the page once again. I’m going to try and improve my ability to ignore the media manipulation, chaos and the polarizing politics that will come next year. My goal is happiness. Since I can’t change the world, I might as well change the way I look at it. Chris Pine said, “The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.” This day is Festival of Enormous Changes At The Last Minute, Bacon Day, National Bicarbonate of Soda Day and Falling Needles Family Fest Day. The falling needles fest is about getting rid of your Christmas Tree before you burn your house down. I’m going with bacon. Now to the history of this date: In 1809 the wearing of masks at balls was forbidden in Boston because the city fathers were worried that sexual promiscuity would happen if people’s identity were concealed. In 1903 an electric arc lamp set fire to Iroquois theater in Chicago leaving 602 dead in one of the deadliest blazes in American history. On this day in 1922 the USSR is formally proclaimed in Moscow. In 1936 the United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant. On this day in 1936 at the age of 70, Rudyard Kipling, a poet, and author of The Jungle Book and Treasure Island drew his last breath. Some of Rudyard quotes are, “I keep 6 honest men serving me (they taught me all I know): their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.” “An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.” “I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.” I’ll wrap up this post with “A man can never have too much red wine, too many books or too much ammunition.” Abide.
