We have arrived at the 19th day of March 2022. I have been looking forward to this day for the last 2 years. It’s the Parrot Head Club’s Poker Run. We will raise close to $20,000 for local charities today. That’s a bunch of food and clothing for the hungry and the homeless that live in central Florida. We will “Party with a Purpose” which is the motto of Parrot Heads around the world. I’m making memories today. If you can’t join us, you can celebrate Certified Nurses Day, Let’s Laugh Day, National Poultry Day, Maple Syrup Day, National Corn Dog Day, National Back Yard Day, and National Chocolate Caramel Day. Now let’s see what happened on 03.19: On this day in 1748 the Naturalization Act passed granting Jews the right to colonize in North America. In 1775, 4 people were buried by avalanche in Italy for 37 days, 3 survived. Wow. In 1831 the 1st US bank robbery happened when the City Bank in New York was robbed of $245,000. That is the equivalent of almost $7.3 million in 2020 dollars. This is the day in 1911 of the 1st International Women’s Day. Over 1 million men and women attended rallies in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland to promote women’s rights to vote, hold public office, work and end discrimination of the job. In other words, people had to fight for what we take for granted today. This is the day in 1950 that the author Edgar Rice Burroughs died. He said, “If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one’ and “You are here for but an instant and you mustn’t take yourself too seriously.” I’ll wrap this day’s post up with a quote from William Jennings Bryan who was born on this day in 1860. He said, “Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved”. In other words, your destiny is what you make it. Abide.
