December 10th, 2019 and we’re in the countdown for 2020. Still a future event but becoming more real each day. I’m going to watch at least one Christmas movie. Haven’t decided between Christmas Story, White Christmas or Elf. What will you watch? Today we don’t have many celebratory events to choose from: It’s Dewey Decimal System Day, Festival for the Souls of Dead Whales?, Human Rights Day, Nobel Prize Day and the one I’m picking, National Lager Day. How did dead whale souls get their own day? Going with a cold beer. Now to the history of today: in 1864 General Sherman’s armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins. This is a quote from William Tecumseh Sherman: ” War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.” In 1884 “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain is first published. I’ll finish this post with some quotes by Twain. In 1936 Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Wow. 1964 Nobel Peace Prize presented to Dr Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo. Now back to Mark Twain. If you look up his quotes, you’ll find that he has a lot of them. They’re usually short, insightful and often funny: “If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.” A lot are on religion “No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.” and politics: “Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”. Mark Twain is someone that I would like to spend an afternoon with drinking some lagers with. I’m sure I’d to most of the listening. With that, have an excellent day. You can do it if you try. Abide
