The milepost reads 09.22.2022. We will only travel the 1.6 million miles of time/space one time. Since this post is intended to provide daily reminders, decide to be a nice person for the next 16 hours. Smile, be kind in your speech, banish negative thoughts, help someone, don’t dwell on the world’s chaos, and do your best to enjoy this wonderful, once in your life day. Let’s see if we can find something to celebrate. Sept. 22 is Business Women’s Day, Dear Diary Day, Hobbit Day, International Day of Radiant Peace, National Elephant Appreciation Day, National Ice Cream Day, National White Chocolate Day, World Rhino Day, and the First Day of Fall. I’m going to have some Ice Cream today! Now let’s see what mischief our ancestors did on this day. On this day in 1862 the last people found guilty were hanged for witchcraft in the United States. On this day in 1792 the French National Convention stripped the French King of his powers. On this day in 1862 President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation which threatened to free all enslaved people in the rebel states if those states failed to re-join the Union. On this day in 1906 race riots in Atlanta, GA left 21 people dead. Politicians had been playing to the fears of the whites as an election strategy. On September 22 an Atlanta newspaper published a story of an alleged assault by a black man on a white woman and that was enough reason for the people of Atlanta to start killing each other. On this day in 1955 hurricane Janet killed 500 in the Caribbean. This is the day in 1967 that the poet Carl Sandburg died at the age of 89. I’ll wrap this post up with some of his wisdom. He said, “Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.” “There is an eagle in me who wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.” “Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.” Abide.
