This day is called November 27, 2022. We are now headed directly at Christmas. It’s the biggest day of the year for me although Thanksgiving is close. I’m happy to be able to celebrate my 77th one. I’m going to pretend it’s my last and squeeze the most happiness I can out of it. This is advent Sunday, International Day of the Bible, National Bavarian Cream Pie Day, National Craft Jerky Day, National Electric Guitar Day, Turtle Adoption Day, Pie in the Face Day, and Small Brewery Sunday. Now some history of this day. In 1493 Columbus returned to La Navidad colony to find it destroyed by the Native American uprising against Spanish rule. On this day in 1807 the Portuguese Royal Family and its court of nearly 15,000 left Lisbon for their colony in Brazil to escape invading Napoleonic troops. On this day in 1868 General Custer attacked a Native American village in Oklahoma killing over 100 in what is now known as the Washita River Massacre. On this day in 1870 the New York Times dubs baseball as “The National Game”. This is the day in 1895 that the will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prize. On this day in 1910 NY’s Penn Station opened. This is the day in 1948 that Honda opened a dealership in America. In 1957 on this day the US Army withdrew from Little Rock, Ak after the Central High School integration. In 1965 25,000 people demonstrated against the Vietnam war in Washington DC. Today’s first quote source is the writer and Nobel Prize winner Eugene O’Neill who said, “When you’re 50 you start thinking about things you haven’t thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity – but, it’s about losing people you love.” Next is the English author P.D. James who said, “We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.” I’m going to end with a quote from Black Kettle, Chief of the Sothern Cheyenne who, along with his wife was shot in the back and killed by Custer’s troops on this day. Black Kettle said, “I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.” That’s enough to think on for this day. Abide.
