Sunday, August 6th, 2023, is finally here. I am a wise man because I know that I know nothing. Plato and I are on the same page. I look around and realize that I know almost nothing about the physical world. Nothing about the spiritual or supernatural world. You can add chemistry, biology, advanced mathematics, etc. I do know enough to be content, to be happy, now. That will have to be enough. Today is American Family Day, Balloons to Heaven Day, Farmworker Appreciation Day, Friendship Day, Hiroshima Day, International Forgiveness Day, National Dool Day, National Gossip Day, National Root Beer Float Day, Psychic Day, and Wiggle Your Toes Day. Now history: On this day om 1947 Italian explorer John Cabot returned to Europe from North America. He was the second to do so. Vikings landed in newfoundland around 1,000. On this day in 1901 Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement. Another promise was broken. On this day in 1914, Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlisted in the French Foreign Legion becoming the 1st American to fight in WWI. On this day in 1930 New York Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappeared in NYC. He was never seen again. On this day in 1934, US Troops left Haiti which we had occupied since 1915. On this day in 1945 the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This is the day in 1965 that President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act which prohibited voting discrimination against minorities. Today’s smart dead person is the poet Ben Jonson who said, “There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.” “Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.” “He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.” I’ll end with “Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.” Abide.
