We’ve reached the 19th day of May 2022. Only took us 4.8 billion years to get here. I think we’re about halfway through the earth’s life cycle. In another 5 billion years or so the Sun will expand and burn off Earth’s oceans and turn us into a crispy ball of rock with no life on it. Everything has a beginning, a middle and an end. But that’s then and now is now. Today is Celebrate Your Elected Officials Day, Hummus Day, Boy’s Club Day, National Aperitif Day and National Devil’s Food Cake Day. Now the history of this day. In 1964 on this day Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Harbor formed the United Colonies of New England. This day in 1883 William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody opened Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show in Omaha, Nebraska. A year later in 1884 the Ringling Brothers circus premieres. In 1935 the NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936. On this day in 1968 20th Emmy Awards: “Get Smart”, “Mission Impossible” & Barbara Bain win. This is the day in 1536 that Anne Boleyn was beheaded. Anne said, “The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender.” Wow. I’m going end this post with a few quotes from Ogden Nash who was a poet who stopped rhyming in 1971. Ogden said, “Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.” “I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.” “No, you never get any fun out of things you haven’t done.” I’ll end this post with “He is not drunk, who from the floor, can rise and stand and shout for more.” Abide
