It’s now the 16th day of June 2020. What are we going to do with it? Without the virus we’d have a lot more and better options. As my father said after a serious accident, “I’ve had so much good luck in my life, I can take a little bad luck”. I’ve certainly had more than my share of good luck. Today is Fresh Veggies Day, No Orange Clothes Day, National Cherry Tart Day, National Vinegar Day, Wish Fulfillment Day, Seat Turtle Day and National Fudge Day. I’m going with the Cherry Tart. Fudge is too sweet. Now to the footnotes: On this day in 1858, Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois. Lincoln says, “I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. ” And that my friends, is why the Civil War was fought. This day in 1871, the Universities Tests Act 1871 is adopted which allows students to enter the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without a religion test, except for those intending to study theology. This is the day in 1933 that the National Industrial Recovery Act is passed in the United States, allowing businesses to avoid antitrust prosecution if they establish voluntary wage, price, and working condition regulations on an industry-wide basis. FDR at work trying to pull the country out of the depression. Today is the day in 1829 that Geronimo, Apache Chief was born. On this death bed he told his nephew, “I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.” This is the day in 1977 that Wernher Von Braun died at the age of 65. He said, “Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity.” I agree but I also think they are so far away that we may never know for sure. With that, I’ll start living this day. Abide.
