June 27, 2022. People are fighting, killing, and dying, yelling, protesting, angry, disillusioned, and frustrated in every corner of the world today. I’m doing fine. I don’t have to participate. I understand Buddha’s 3rd noble truth which says that when you give up your desire for the world do it the way you want it done, you are able to let go of your frustration about the way the world is. June 27 is Decide to Be Married Day, National Bingo Day, Helen Keller Day, National Ice Cream Cake Day, National Indian Pudding Day, National Orange Blossom Day, and Sunglasses Day. I have to admit that an Ice Cream Cake sounds yummy. The first historical footnote of interest is in 1778 when the Liberty Bell returned home to Philadelphia. It was removed to prevent the British from melting it down to turn it into weapons. On this day in 1833 Prudence Crandall was arrested for teaching black women in Canterbury, Connecticut. At that time there were “Black Laws” which prohibited schooling freed blacks from other states without the permission of local authorities. Prudence didn’t ask for permission. The case against her was dropped after the jury couldn’t return a verdict. This is the day in 1929 that the 1st color TV was demonstrated by Bell Laboratories in NYC. On this day in 1950, President Harry Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict. The dead person for today is Alvin Toffler who wrote Future Shock. Alvin died in 2015. He said, “the illiterate of the future will not be the man who can’t read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.” “It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.” “The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.” Last one: “Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.” Abide.
