This day is called April 13, 2022. Tennessee Williams said, “Luck is believing you’re lucky.” I am and I do. For me to exist required specific males and females getting together for the last 200,000 years. Then, after I won the greatest prize imaginable: “life”, I picked a path that brought me here. Lucky, lucky, lucky. You are too. Today is National Make Lunch Count Day, Thomas Jefferson Day, International Pink Day, Scrabble Day, and National Peach Cobbler Day. Now to the history section of this post: On this day in 1204 the 4th crusade occupied Constantinople. There were 9 crusades or religious wars over a period of 200 years. The 4th one had 4,500 knights, 14,000 infantry and another 30,000 volunteers from England, Germany, and France. On this day in 1860 the first Pony Express rider reached Sacramento CA. On this day in 1873 the Colfax massacre happened. Between 60 and 150 black militia men were killed by a mob of former confederate soldiers and members of the Klan. On this day in 1911 the US House of Representatives voted to institute direct elections of Senators to Congress. This is the day in 1943 FDR dedicated the Jefferson Memorial. Now to the wisdom of people passed. The first is the author Wallace Stegner who died on this date in 1993. He said, “if you’re going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.” Next is the French poet Jean dl La Fontaine who stopped breathing on April 13, 1695. Jean said, “Neither wealth or greatness render us happy” and “Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.” And I’ll end with Eduardo Galeano who was a writer from Uruguay who died in 2015 and said, “We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.” Abide.
