We have entered the time/space of November 17, 2021. How will you use your superpower today? We all have one. Each of us has the ability make or destroy another people’s day. The President can make the stock market drop a hundred points with a single sentence. When someone is messing with their radio or phone and has a fender-bender on the freeway at 7:30 AM, a thousand people get to work late. A complement to someone brings a smile to their face. A kind word or a snarky response can turn a good day bad or a bad day good. You have the power. The Commission on Daily Holidays has picked: Electronic Greeting Card Day, Homemade Bread Day, National Butter Day (how convenient), National Unfriend Day, National Baklava Day, National Take a Hike Day and International Happy Gose Day. Gose is a particular kind of German beer. Onto history: On this day in 1278, 680 Jews were arrested in England for counterfeiting coins and 293 were hanged. In 1789 in New England this was the first day of a 5-day blizzard that killed hundreds of people. In 1863 on this day Lincoln began writing the Gettysburg Address. In 1928 Notre Dame finally loses a football game at home after 23 years. Wow. In 1956 Syracuse fullback Jim Brown, scores NCAA record of 43 pts (vs Colgate). Instead of quoting people who died on this day, I’m going to give a couple of superpower quote. Yehuda Berg who wrote “The power to change everything” said, “Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble”. The philosopher Blaise Pascal said “Kind words do not cost much but they accomplish much.” I’ll end with one from Napoleon Hill who said, “Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.” Use your superpower wisely today. Abide.
