May 6, 2022 has arrived. In a few hours the spot on the Earth where I am will rotate into the light of the Sun and the dawn of a new day will begin. It’s difficult to treat this one as special since I’ve lived through 28,098 of them already. I’ll do my best because I don’t know how many more I’ve got. Today is International No Diet Day, National Nurses Day, National Beverage Day National Crepe Suzette Day, International Tuba Day, National Nurses Day, and No Pants Day. Now some history of this date: This is the day in 1527 that Spanish and German Imperial troops sacked Rome, ending the Renaissance. In 1626 on this date, Dutch colonist Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan Island from Native Americans for 60 guilders worth of goods. On this day in 1837 a blacksmith named John Deere created the first steel plough in Grand Detour, Illinois. On this is the day in 1937 that the German airship Hindenburg exploded in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 on board and 1 on the ground. This is the day in 1941 that Joseph Stalin became Premier of the Soviet Union. On that same day, Bob Hope performed his first USO show. Since Henry David Thoreau died on this day in 1862, I will provide you with some of his observations. Thoreau said, “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” “Be yourself, not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.” I’ll end with “Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.” Abide.
