The sun has risen on January 25, 2024. A new day awaits. Your normal evolutionary tuning is slightly negative with a touch of apprehension and anxiety. Helpful to our ancestors who were trying to avoid being a predator’s meal. I suggest turning the dial to Positive, at least for today. Harvey MacKay said, “When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist.” The holidays for today are A Room of One’s Own Day, Clashing Clothes Day, Macintosh Computer Day, National Irish Coffee Day, Observe the Weather Day, Opposite Day, Robert burns Day, Thank Your Mentor Day, and Women’s Healthy Weight Day. It’s also Hunt for Happiness Week. I’m always celebrating that one. Now some history. On this day in the year 41, after a night of negotiations, Claudius was accepted as the Emperor of Rome by the Senate. The emperor derived their powers from the Senate and the Senate could, and did, declare the Emperor an enemy of the state and could remove him from power. I didn’t know that. On this day in 1877 Congress established the electoral Commission to determine disputed presidential elections. On this day in 1915 transcontinental telephone service was inaugurated (NYC to San Francisco). On this day in 1955 Russia ended the state of war with Germany. On this day in 1980 Paul McCarney was released from jail after 9 days in Tokyo and deported. They found marijuana in his baggage. Today’s quotes come from the English author Virginia Woolf. She said, “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” “I don’t think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness.” “Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.” “The perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.” “Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.” Abide.
