The celestial clock has moved over one notch into the space of June 25 2020. I’m almost at the point of being able to accurately forecast what I’ll be doing for an entire day, the day before I do it. A little like Ground Hog Day but not as much fun. I am getting better on the ukulele which is a good thing. Today is Bourdain Day as in Anthony Bourdain who left us too soon. It’s also Color TV Day because on this day in 1951 CBS made the first color broadcast. It’s National Seafarer’s Day, Global Beatles Day, National Bomb Pop Day, National Catfish Day and National Strawberry Parfait Day. A Bomb Pop would taste good this afternoon when it gets to 96 degrees. This is the day in 1876 called the Battle of the Little Bighorn when General George Armstrong Custer was wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. Custer ordered his 600 soldiers to attack a camp of 10,000 Indians with predictable results. On this day in 1913 American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Gettysburg Reunion of 1913. Over 50,000 veterans from both sides showed up. Finally, on this day in 1975 Barry White’s “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love Babe” is released. This is George Orwell’s birthday (1903). He said, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” This is the day that Jacques Yves Cousteau stopped living at the age of 87. Jacques said, “If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.” Something to think about. You’ve got the time today or tomorrow. With that , I’ll go back to reading the news and drinking my coffee. Stay safe. Abide.
