The mile marker sign is 01.20.2022 in our journey. Another day awaits. Writing this post is a small adventure for me. I never know at this point where I’ll be 30 minutes from now. What I expect is that I’ll be in a good place when I write “abide” and send it to you. Let’s see where this takes us. Today is National Disk Jockey Day, International Day of Acceptance, National Buttercrunch Day, National Cheese Lovers Day, Penguin Awareness Day and Take A Walk Outside Day. Now to history: On this day in 1785 Samuel Ellis advertised to sell Oyster Island which is now known as Ellis Island. There were no takers. In 1841 China cedes Hong Kong to the British during the 1st Opium War. Do you know what the Opium Wars were about? Britain had been buying opium from India and selling it in China throughout the 18th Century. The population of China was becoming dangerously addicted and China tried to stop to the importation of the drugs. They went to war and the Brits won both Opium wars. Now you know. In 1942 on this date, Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee Conference in Berlin to organize the “final solution”, the extermination Europe’s 11 million Jews. Finally, this is the day in 1962 that Ozzy bites the head of a bat in a concert in Des Moines, Iowa. The quotes for today come from an English writer, art critic and philosopher named John Ruskin who died on this day in 1900 at the age of 80. John said, “What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thig of consequence is what we do.” “One can’t be angry when one looks at a penguin.” “People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser… and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.” I’ll end this post with “Kind hears are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit”. This is a good place to end. Abide.
