Today is March 11, 2023. I’m planning to live another wonderful day. This day will either live up to my expectations or it won’t. If it doesn’t, it won’t be because I didn’t make the effort. I’m starting it with gratitude and optimism, and I intend to ignore the chaos of the world. Wish me luck. This is Debunking Day, Dream Day, Genealogy Day, International Fanny Pack Day, Johnny Appleseed Day, National Promposal Day, Oatmeal Nut Waffles Day, World Plumbing Day and Worship of Tools Day. Now some history: On this day in 1665 NY approved a new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights. This is the day in 1779 that the US Army Corps of Engineers was established. On this day in 1824 the US War Department created the Bureau of Indian Affairs. On this day in 1865 Union forces lead by General Sherman occupy Fayetteville, NC. This is the day in 1892 of the 1st public basketball game which was held in Springfield MA. On this day in 1941 FDR signed the Lend-Lease Bill by which the US provided material support to Great Britain’s war effort in return for future use of land for US military bases in England. This is the day in 1942 that the 1st deportation train left Paris headed for the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. On this day in 1958 a US B-47 accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a family home in Mars Bluff SC creating a crater 75 feet across. Lucky it didn’t explode. Today we visit the grave of John Wyndham who was an English Science Fiction writer who died in 1969. John said, “Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool’s vote is equal to a sensible man’s?” “It must be, I thought, one of the race’s most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that “it can’t happen here” You need to think long and hard about that observation.” “When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.” It’s obvious that when John wrote this, he hadn’t retired yet. Abide.
