Life is good. Those three words comprise much of my personal philosophy. It’s so much better to wake up with a positive attitude. I don’t need to remind myself anymore. It’s become my normal state of mind. Took me a long time to get there but I persevered and got here. Now, it’s February 23, 2020. This is Curling Is Cool Day, National Banana Bread Day, Play Tennis Day (don’t think so), World Understanding and Peace Day and National Rationalization Day. Curling is probably cool but you have to remember that it’s played on ice and running around on ice isn’t cool. I’ll take the banana bread. Now to history. This is interesting. In 1455 Johannes Gutenberg prints his first Bible. That means we didn’t have a full, put together bible until almost 1,500 years after Christ. I looked up the timeline for the bible and found that there was an earlier hand written bible created by John Wycliffe who thought the pubic should be able to read the bible in their own language. The Church disagreed. And then I read this “44 years after Wycliffe’s death, church officials dig up his bones, burned them, and scatter the ashes on Swift River.” Moving on, in 1813 the 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Massachusetts. On this date in 1836 the battle of the Alamo begins. In 1886 Aluminum manufacturing process is developed. In 1896 the Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield. In 1919 Fascist Party formed in Italy by Benito Mussolini. In 1940 Walt Disney’s animated movie “Pinocchio” released. This is Peter Fonda’s birthday (1940). I need to watch Easy Rider again. This also happens to be the day that Carl Friedrich Gauss died in 1855 at the age of 77. He is considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians of all time (fundamental theorem of algebra). He said, “It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.” In other words, it’s the journey, not the destination. With that, I’ll start my journey of today. Abide
