Ra is about to start his daily ride across the sky of August 17, 2023. The Irish Sun Goddess was Elain. The Vikings and the Romans worshiped Sol. Virtually all ancient cultures considered the Sun to be a God or Goddess. If you need to worship something, it’s not a bad choice. Without the Sun, there would be no life on Earth. Today is Baby Boomers Recognition Day, National #2 Pencil Day, National Black Cat Appreciation Day, National I Love My Feet Day, National Non-Profit Day, National Thrift Shop Day, and National Vanila Custard Day. Now let’s see what happened on this day: On this day in 1563 King Charles IX of France was declared an adult at 13. That’s right, France was ruled by a 13-year-old. This is the day in 1530 that John White returned from England and found no trace of the colonists that he had left on Roanoke Island 3 years earlier. On this day in 1787 Jews were granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups. On this day in 1891 the 1st public bathhouse with showers opened in New York City. It was named the People’s Bath. On this day in 1915 a mob lynched Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County Georgia when his death sentence was commuted to life in prison for the murder of a 13-year-old girl. On this day in 1945 Korea was divided into North and South at the 38th parallel. On this day in 1946 George Orell published “Animal Farm”. This was the final day of Woodstock in 1969. Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Country Joe and the Fish, The Band, CSN&Y and Sha Na Na took the stage. Today’s first insight come from the singer Pearl Bailey. She said, “Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.” Next is Ira Gershwin who was a lyricist. Ira said, “Life is one long jubilee” and “Holding hands at midnight ‘Neath a starry sky… Nice work if you can get it And you can get it – if you try.” Last for today in Charlotte Perkins Gilman who was a novelist. She said, “Life is a verb, not a noun” and “Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.” Abide.
