January 26, 2021. That is where we are at now. I like to think of it as two points in space on Earth’s orbit around the Sun. We travel about 1.6 million miles each day at a speed of 66,627 mph. The next time I’m pulled over and asked, “how fast were you going” I could give him an accurate answer. Probably not a good idea. Today is Green Juice Day, National Peanut Brittle Day, Spouses Day, National Plan A Vacation Day and Toad Hollow Day Of Encouragement. Toad Hollow is the name of a school (1934) that stood in Kalamazoo MI. A storyteller named Ralph C. Morrison started incorporating Toad Hollow into his stories and that’s how it got its own day. I think I’ll plan a vacation today. With my second vaccination soon to come, it’s time to go somewhere. Now to the way back machine. In 1697 Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli’s 6-month time-limit problem and solves problem before going to bed that same night. He is the person that said, “What goes up, must come down”. In 1784 Benjamin Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America’s symbol. It isn’t true that Franklin proposed our national symbol be the turkey but it is true that he thought the turkey would be a better choice. In 1838 Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States. In 1905 on this day the 3,106-carat Cullinan diamond, largest ever found is discovered South Africa In 1954, groundbreaking begins on Disneyland. Finally, in 1962 Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” to be impure and bans it from all Catholic schools. This is Paul Newman’s birthday. Paul said, “If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.” This is also the day (1990) that Lewis Mumford who was a historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic stopped living. He said, “A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.” True. Adversity seems to be necessary on the path to success. That’s it. The end. Abide.
