It’s already the 3rd day of August. It’s going too fast. As we age, our perception of time changes. It goes by faster. Not a good thing. To slow time down, focus on the small things, change your routine, change your surroundings (weekend getaway?), stop multitasking so much, get out of your comfort zone, meditate, and enjoy each day. You can also celebrate one of the following holidays: Airplane Crop Duster Day, Clean Your Floors Day, Grab Some Nuts Day, National Watermelon Day, and National IPA Day. Now for some history: On this day in 1492 Columbus set sail for the Indies with three ships, the Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina. On this day in 1852 America’s first intercollegiate sporting event took place when Harvard rowing crew beat Yale by 2 lengths over a 2-mile course. On this day in 1882 Congress passed the 1st law restricting immigration. On this day in 1925 the last US troops left Nicaragua. We had occupied Nicaragua since 1912. On this day in 1936 Jesse Owens won the 100-meter Olympic race in Berlin in front of Adolf Hitler. On this day in 1943 General Patton slapped a US GI in a hospital, accusing him of cowardice. On this day in 1944 at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, 4,000 gypsies were gassed. On this day in 1979 Sam Snead, at the age of 67, made the cut at the PGA championship at Oakland Hills becoming the oldest player to ever do so. This is the day in 1981 that the Air Traffic Controllers began their strike and President Reagan promised that if they didn’t return to work, they would be fired. They were. Today’s first dead person is the legendary Lenny Bruce. Lenny said, “I hate small towns because once you’ve seen the cannon in the park, there’s nothing else to do.” “If God made the body, and the body is dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.” I’ll end with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who said, “It’s a universal law: intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. A truly profound education breeds humility.” “We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.” That’s a good place to end this post. Abide.
