Here we are. March 2, 2021. A year ago at this time we were beginning to understand we were headed into the storm. Now we are headed out of it. Not to clear blue skies quite yet but soon this will be nothing but a memory. The story just came out today that the trumps were vaccinated in January and decided to keep it a secret. I’ll let you be the judge of that. It’s National Banana Cream Pie Day, International Rescue Cat Day (not going to do that), Old Stuff Day and National Read Across America Day. I’m surprised every time someone tells me they haven’t read a book in years. I love where books can take me. Moving on. This is the date in 1796 Napoléon Bonaparte is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French Army in Italy. Here are a couple of quotes from Mr. Bonaparte, “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” In 1866 the 1st US company to make sewing needles by machine was incorporated. How did they make them before? On this day in 1867 the US Congress abolished peonage in New Mexico. Peonage is any form of wage labor in which a laborer has no control over employment conditions. When you can’t own slaves, having peons is the next best thing. In 1932 Australian golf trick-shot artist Joe Kirkwood shot an incredible 83 using only his putter over 18 holes at Belleaire, Florida. Wow. This is Mikhail Gorbachev’s birthday. He was the 8th and last leader of the Soviet Union. He was also an environmentalist. Mikhail said, “We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah’s Ark.” This is the day that the English writer D. H. Lawrence stopped breathing. He said, “I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets”. Me too. I think I’ll end this here. Abide
