Soon the Sun will rise on the 12th day of October 2022. It’s another great day to be alive. Today, be nice, complement people, smile, help someone, call an old friend, tell someone you love them. You want to put yourself in a position to be happy with what you did today. 10.11 is Cookbook Launch Day, Emergency Nurses Day, Freethought Day, International Top Spinning Day, National Farmer’s Day, National Take Your Parents to Lunch Day (wish I still could), Stop America’s Violence Everywhere Day, National Gumbo Day, and Pulled Pork Day. Gumbo sounds good and so does pulled pork. Now some history: On this day in 1216 King John of England loses his crown jewels when a flood tide swamps his wagons. That means there’s a fortune in the mud near Sutton Bridge in England. On this day in 1280 180 Jews refused baptism in Munich Germany and were set on fire. This is the day in 1609 that the children’s rhyme “Three Blind Mice” was published in London. It’s thought to have been about 3 Protestants who were executed by Queen Mary I of England. On this day in 1740 evangelist George Whitefield preached to 30,000 in Boston during the ‘Great Awakening’. On this day in 1773 America’s first asylum opened in Virginia for ‘Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’. On this day in 1892 the US Pledge of Allegiance was first recited in public schools. On this day in 1915 Ford Motor Company manufactured its 1 millionth automobile at the River Rouge plant in Detroit. The dead person I stumbled onto today is Anatole France who was a French writer who died in 1924. I like his observations. Here are a few a few of them: “Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.” “In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.” “If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” “You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.” “Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.” That’s enough for this day. Abide.