This day is named October 21, 2022. Are you going to do anything today to improve your life? Are you going to start controlling your thoughts? Are you going to create a new reality for yourself? It can be done and doing it is suggested by philosophers for the last several thousand years. Just google “how to control my thoughts” and start reading. Today is Back to the Future Day, Apple Day, Babbling Day, Celebration of the Mind Day, check Your Meds Day, Garbanzo Bean Day, International Day of the Nacho, Reptile Awareness Day, and National Pumpkin cheesecake day. Yum! On this day in 335 Constantine the Great ruled that Jews can’t purchase circumcised Christian slaves. On this day in 1797 the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) was launched in Boston. On this day in 1869 the 1st shipment of fresh oysters was shipped from Baltimore. I can’t find where they were shipped to. On this day in 1917 the 1st Americans see action on the front lines in WWl. On this day in 1945 women in France are allowed to vote for the 1st time. On this day in 1967 tens of thousands of anti-Vietnam War protesters marched on the Pentagon. This is the day that Jack Kerouac died in 1969. He was a poet of the beat generation. Here are some of his insights and suggestions: “Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything.” “Be in love with your life, every detail of it.” Next is George McGovern who ran for President and lost. George said, “I’m sick and tired of old men sitting around in Washington dreaming up wars for young men to die in” and “Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.” I’ll warp up this post with a quote from Ursula K. Le Guin who observed “All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people.” That enough for this day. Abide.
