27 Sept
Weather
Expectations Week 40 Day 270 Today 74°/49°
Wind
11mph Gusts 12mph Air
Quality: Fair Sunshine Breezy
Risk
of fire: High Active
Fire: 114 miles away
Nearest
Lightning: 575 miles away Humidity: 31%
Sept
Averages: Temps: 74°\43° 8 days with rain
Today’s
Observances:
Ancestor Appreciation Day
Crush A Can Day Link
Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
Gold Star Mother's and Family's Day
Google's Birthday
Happy Daughters Day Link
International Day of The Deaf
National Day of Forgiveness Link
National Scarf Day
Priesthood Sunday Link Link Link
World Rivers Day
World Tourism Day
Weekly
Observances:
Fall Astronomy Week: 21-27
International Week of the Deaf: 21-27
National Dog Week: 21-27 Link Link Link
World Forestry
Week: 21-27 Link
World Reflexology Week: 21-27
Sukkot [Jewish]: 26-10/2
National Fall Foliage Week: 27-10/3
Fresh Quotation:
Today’s
Reflection:
A very nice Fall day.
I cleaned up around the house. I finally folded up my walker and
moved it to the stairwell. I never use it, but need to keep it easily available,
just in case.
It is so nice to be recovering so well. It seems like June, and my illness
was years ago. I’m eating better, feeling better, sleeping better, and ready to
tackle every day.
Regarding Navajo Culture: The Ye’bi’chei Ceremony is a sacred
healing ceremony of 9 days. There are lots of songs, chants, sand paintings and
the dancers. Every year the 5 Navajo Agencies hold an annual fair that have a parade,
rodeo, carnival, food vendors, crafts vendors and lots of family gatherings…
and after the carnival ends, the Ye’bi’chei ceremony draws many to the event. People stay out for hours to see the dancers.
Many traditional people are saying that this practice has turned a sacred
ceremony into a gathering that has little to do with the patient being healed.
The Medicine Man has always been ‘paid’ by the patient and that family. It used
to be that they were paid for with sheep, food, and maybe some jewelry. The
family always decides on the payment. Today, many Medicine Men are asking for
$10,000 for the 9 days. Traditionalists say this is all wrong. I spent many
fair nights at the ceremony when I was working on the Rez. The Western Navajo
Fair is not having this ceremony during the fair this year. Everyone will see
it that makes any changes in the ceremony and its payment system.
Historical events
Cool to know:
A team of six women
programmed the first digital computer.
While historians have
only recently recognized their achievements (or female discoveries credited to men),
the female mathematicians participated in a World War II program coding
instructions into the revolutionary Electronic Numerical Integrator and
Computer (ENIAC).
Picture of the
Day:
Bears Ears National Monument, Utah,
United States
© Jeff Clay/Tandem
Stills + Motion
What do a bear's
ears, a house on fire and a road packed with hairpin turns have in common?
They're all part of the story of southeastern Utah's public lands.
Interesting Space
Facts:
The Sun weighs about
330,000 times more than Earth.
It is about 109 times
the diameter of Earth and is so large that the Earth could fit inside the sun
about 1,300,000 times over!
In fact, the sun is so
gigantic that it contains 99.85% of all mass in our solar system.
Harper’s Index
from Funny Times:
Minimum
number of times that Donald Trump has publicly complained about wind turbines
since 2016: 124
Source:
Harper’s research
Percentage of those remarks in which he complained that they were ugly : 32
Source:
Harper’s research
That
they killed birds: 38
Today’s Birthdays:
Avril Lavigne Pop Singer
42 years old
Birthplace Belleville,
Canada
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Gwyneth Paltrow Movie
Actress 54 years old
Birthplace Los Angeles,
CA
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Samuel Adams Politician
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Meat Loaf (Michael Lee
Aday) Rock
Singer [1947-2022] @74 COVID
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That’s All for Now
