The sign post reads 10.5.2020. If October were a beach, there would be signs that say, “Dangerous Riptides and Jellyfish”. If you like chaos, October is for you. I’m getting some laughs out of it. They are the Chuckle Chuckle “you won’t believe this” kind of jokes. About what I expected. Let’s focus on today. It’s Blue Shirt Day, Child Health Day, Day Of Unity, Do Something Nice Day, Global James Bond Day, National Habitat Day, World Teacher Day, National Get Funky Day and my pick, National Apple Betty Day which is about the same thing as an Apple Pie. Yum. Now to our daily history lesson. On this day in 1789 the women of Paris marched to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris. Several people were killed, the palace was looted and the mob of over 10,000 won. In 1864 on this day the Battle of Allatoona Pass is fought, over 1,500 were killed. This is the day in 1892 that the Dalton Gang is killed in a shoot-out in Coffeyville, Kansas during an attempted bank holdup. Finally, in 1954 Hurricane Hazel forms in the Caribbean, killing 400-1000 people in the Bahamas and Haiti. This is the birthday of the French philosopher Dennis Diderot. I’ll give you a couple of his quotes: “Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” and “We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.” I will end this post with a quote from Tecumseh, Chief of the Shawnee who stopped living this day in 1813, “When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Abide.
