It’s May 15th, 2022. I just checked the map at the National Hurricane Center for the first time this year. I’ll be doing it almost every day for the next 6 months. I’m expecting this to be a really good day. Might as well be optimistic about the next 18 hours. It’s Bring Flowers to Someone Day, National Chocolate Chip Day, International Conscientious Objectors Day, Nylon Stockings Day, Peace Officers Memorial Day, Straw Hat Cay and Relive Your Past By Listening to the First Music You Ever Bought Day. In my case I think it was Duke of Earl by Gene Chandler. On this day in 1525 the battle of Frankenhausen took place. The German peasant army was surrounded and 5,000 were slaughtered. The German peasant war was the largest insurrection in Europe until the French revolution. On this day in history in 1817 the 1stt private mental health hospital opens in the US. It is named the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On this day in 1905 Las Vegas is founded. This is the day in 1911 that the Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act). I wonder what that Court would think about Amazon? In 1934 the US Department of Justice offers a $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive. Finally, My first quote from a dead person today comes from Charles Williams who British poet who died in 1945 and said, “You may have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.” Next, because it’s her birthday, Madeleine Albright. She said, “To put it mildly, the world is a mess.” Finally, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson who stopped writing poetry in 1896. Emily said, “We turn not older with years, but newer every day.” That’s a nice quote to end with. Abide.
