February 27, 2021. One more day and we will enter the time/space of March 2021. It’s that little patch of space 1,004,000,000 miles across. We are traveling at 375 miles a second toward the Virgo Cluster which is an enormous collection of galaxies some 45 million light-years away. I don’t think we have to worry about that yet. Today is National Kahlua Day, National Protein Day, National Strawberry Day, National Retro Day, No-Brainer Day, International Sword Swallowers Day, International Tongue Twisters Day and Open The Bottle Night. Since I’m into the Big Lebowski, opening a bottle of Kahlua tonight and making a White Russian is a no-brainer. Now to history. On this date in 1670 Jews were expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I. On this day in 1813 the 1st federal vaccination legislation was enacted. In 1814 Ludwig van Beethoven’s 8th Symphony in F premiered. I tell you this to give you a quote from Beethoven who lived an unhappy life, was deaf but created music which will be played as long as humanity survives. He said, “Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.” In 1919 American Association for Hard of Hearing forms in New York City. I’ll bet there was a lot of yelling and repeated questions at their first convention. This is the day in 1933 the Reichstag, German parliament building, was destroyed by fire. It is believed to have been started by the Nazis as an excuse to remove all constitutional protections. This is the birthday of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Henry said, “In this world a man must either be anvil or a hammer”. He is also the person who said, “Into each life some rain must fall”. This is the day in 2015 that we lost Spock (Leonard Nimoy). In addition to his acting, he was a poet, a writer and a gifted photographer. He said, “The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.” With that, I’ll start my day which will end with some White Russians when the sun goes down. Abide.
