This day is called August 30th, 2022. I just checked the National Hurricane Center and the tropical depression in the middle of the Atlantic with the best chance of becoming a hurricane looks like it will make a Northward turn and stay away from the East coast. A summer/fall without a hurricane is a good year. We have 123 days left in 2022 incase you’re counting. This one is Frankenstein Day, International Whale Shark Day, National Beach Day, National Grief Awareness Day, National Toasted Marshmallow Day, Touch-A-Heat Tuesday, and Slinky Day. I may watch Young Frankenstein this afternoon to celebrate. The “Putting On The Ritz” tuxedo dance by Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle is a classic. Moving on: On this day in 1146 European leaders outlawed the crossbow, intending to end war for all time. On this day in 1800 Gabriel Prosser “almost” led a slave rebellion in Richmond, VA. I say “almost” because the fact that there was going to be an organized rebellion was leaked and Gabriel and 25 others who were going to lead the rebellion were hanged before it got started. On this day in 1890 President Benjamin Harrison sighed the first US Law requiring the inspection of meat products. On this day in 1956 a white mob prevented the enrollment of blacks at Mansfield High School in Texas. On this day in 1979 Hurricane David makes landfall killing 1,200 in Florida, and the Dominican Republic. Today we visit with Oliver Wolf Sacks who was a British neurologist, naturalist, and historian. He died in 2015. Here are some of his observations: “Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.” “I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.” I’ll wrap this post up with a quote from Naguib Mahfouz who was a Nobel Prize winning writer from Egypt who said, “You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.” Abide.
