This is the 3rd day of 2022. I remind myself daily and you, periodically the kind of day you are going to experience depends on your attitude. You simply can’t have a good day with a bad attitude. So, happy thoughts everyone. Let’s see what events the Commission has deemed important enough to have their very own day: Festival of Sleep Day, Memento Mori or Remember You Die Day, National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day, National Write To Congress day and Women Rock Day which is about the women of rock and roll. Onto history: On this day in 1431 Joan of Arc was handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon. 6 days later she was put on trial, found guilty and burned at the stake on May 30. She was 19 years old. In 1521 on this day Martin Luther was excommunicated by Pope Leo X and the Protestant Reformation began. In 1932 Martial law was declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by United Fruit. If you want to understand imperialism, research United Fruit. In 1938 March of Dimes established to fight polio. As a child I remember how frightened everyone was of getting polio and living in an iron lung. Today is Marcus Tullius Cicero’s birthday. He was born in 106 BC. Over a thousand years ago Cicero said, “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel other to believe and live as we do.” I don’t think we’ve changed much in a thousand years. Abide.
