We’ve made it to August 27, 2020. For lots of people the 26th and 27th will be days forever remembered. Hurricane Laura made sure of that. If you live on the Gulf coast, it’s only a matter of time until a bad one hits you in the face. I hope this is the last one of the year but it probably won’t be. There’s already another X on the map at the National Hurricane Center. That’s a week away and today’s Just Because Day, Kiss Me Day, National Banana Lovers Day, National Pots de Crème Day (French dessert custard), Tarzan Day, World Rock Paper Scissors Day, Thoughtful Thursday and my pick, National Burger Day. This date in 1789 the French National Assembly issues the “Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen”. If you read the highlights of it, you will know where our Bill of Rights came from. In 1859 on this day, the 1st successful oil well is drilled near Titusville, Pennsylvania. On this day in 1883, the Krakatoa volcano erupts with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people. On this day in 1918 the Spanish Flu arrives in Boston, beginning of the second wave and deadliest wave in the US. The “Spanish Flu’ didn’t start in Spain. It began in a small military camp near Liberal Kansas in 1917 and was transported to Europe by American soldiers fighting in WWI. Today is Lyndon B. Johnson birthday. He was, in my opinion, the most powerful President in my lifetime. Lots of quotes, both funny and serious. “Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.” That’s a good place to end this post. Be careful, wear the damn mask and Abide.
