It is March 15, 2023. March gets its name from the Romans who called it Martius. This was the first month in the Roman calendar beginning in 753 BC. Martius is named after Mars, the Roman God of War. This day is the “Ides of March” which means that, in ancient Rome, all debts should be settled today. No one owes me anything so there I won’t be collecting anything today. Today is also National Everything You Think is Wrong Day, Peanut Lovers Day, Dumbstruck Day, International Day Against Police Brutality, National Brutus Day, National Egg Cream Day, National Pears Helene Day, and True Confessions Day. I do like peanut anything so that’s my celebratory focus for today. Onto history: This is the day in 44 BC when Julius Caesar was murdered by Brutus and several other Roman senators. On this day in 1729 Sister St. Stanislas Hachard took her vows in New Orleans to become America’s first nun. This is the day in 1812 that the 1st Russian settlement in California was established at Russian River. This is the day in 1867 that Michigan became the 1st state to tax property to support a university. On this day in 1913, Woodrow Wilson held the 1st Presidential press conference. This is the day in 1972 that the “Godfather” premiered. The featured dead person for today is Rebecca West who was an English author who passed in 2015. She said, “God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.” “The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.” “Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wrench to do her housework.” “Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.” That’s enough for today. Abide.
