My favorite psychoanalyst, Dr. Seuss said, “Today was good, today was fun, Tomorrow is another one.” It’s February 23rd, 2022 and I have high expectations that it will be as good as yesterday was. After all, it’s Curling Is Cool Day, National Banana Bread Day, Play Tennis Day, National Tile Day, Diesel Engine Day, Inconvenience Yourself day (why?), World Understanding and Peace Day, and National Rationalization Day. Now to history. This is interesting: In 1455 Johannes Gutenberg printed his first Bible. That means we didn’t have a full, put together bible until almost 1,500 years after Christ. in 1813 the 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill was founded in Waltham, Massachusetts. On this date in 1836 the battle of the Alamo began. In 1886 Aluminum manufacturing process was developed. In 1896 the Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield. In 1940, this is the day that Walt Disney’s animated movie “Pinocchio” was released. Today we will stop at the grave of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois who died in 1963. Du Bois was a scholar, writer, editor, civil rights pioneer and the first black to receive a PHD from Harvard. He said, “Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States,” and “There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.” Today is the day in 1821 that the poet John Keats drew his last breath at the age of 25. John said, “To stay youthful, stay useful.” “To silence gossip don’t repeat it.” I’ll end with this one: “Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.” All I can add to that is “me too”. Abide.
