This is the 15th day of November 2022. I hope you’re ready to live this day. I am. I always am. The fact that I only get so many is reason enough for me to appreciate each one I get. The fewer I have the more precious they become. Today is American Enterprise Day, George Spelvin Day (I’ll explain in a second), I Love To Write Day (I do), Little Red Wagon Day, National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day, National Raisin Bran Cereal Day, National Bundt Day and National Spicy Hermit Cookie Day. George or Georgette is a name used in the credits of a play or movie if a character plays two parts or if the actor hasn’t been picked when the program was printed, etc… Now you know. Onto history: On this date in 1492, Columbus noted the 1st recorded reference to tobacco. On this day in 1881 the American Federation of Labor (AFL) was founded in Pittsburgh. In 1937 on this day the first US congressional session in air-conditioned chambers takes place. This is the day in 1969 that an estimated 2 million people take part in the Vietnam War Moratorium demonstration across the United States. It’s the same day that Janes Joplin is accused of vulgar & indecent language in Tampa, Florida. Today’s dead person is the anthropologist, Margaret Mead. She was a smart lady. She said, “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” “It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.” “What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.” I’ll end with “I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.” Abide.
