February 11, 2023 is here. I’m cautiously optimistic that it will be a good day to be alive. That’s a pretty low bar with an easily achievable goal. Just the way I like to be. Today is Get Out Your Guitar Day (I’m sure a Ukelele would also work), Global Move Day, Grandmother Achievement Day, International Day of Women and Girls Science, National Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk Day, National Inventor’s Day, National Make a Friend Day, National Peppermint Patty Day, Promise Day, Satisfied Staying Single Day, and White Shirt Day. Moving on: On this day in the year 55, Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship, died under suspicious circumstance paving the way for Nero to become Emperor. On this day in 1790 the Society of Friends petitioned Congress for the abolition of slavery. This is the day in 1794 that the US Senate’s meetings became open to the public. On this day in 1814 Norway’s independence was proclaimed. This is the day in 1852 that the first British public female toilet opened on Bedford Street in London. On this day in 1916 Emma Goldman was arrested for lecturing on birth control. On this day in 1922 the US intervention army left Honduras. On this day in 1950 Englishman Jack Holden won the marathon in Auckland, New Zealand running the last 9 miles barefoot after his shoes fell off. Today’s dead person is the French philosopher, Rene Descartes. He said, “the only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.” “Doubt is the origin of wisdom.” “The only thing that I know, is that I know nothing.” “The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.” The last one is “How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems to us through our senses?” A good place to stop this post. Abide.