22 Mar

 

Week 12  Day 82 Flag Today  61°/27° Sky cover:  30% Wind 7mph Gusts 11mph Active Fire:  - miles away Risk of fire: Moderate  Nearest Lightning:  150 miles away Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Partly Cloudy Mar. Daily Averages: Temps: 53°\23° Moisture:  6 Days

Weekly Observations

-3/30 Lent 11-4/8 Ramadan 17-23   American Chocolate Week Link Consider Christianity Week National Agriculture Week National Animal Poison Prevention Week Link  Link National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week  Link  National Poison Prevention Week Link Passion Week World Folktales & Fables Week World Optometry Week Link  17-30 Passiontide 18-22 National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week Native American Awareness Week Link 18-24   Act Happy Week International Teach Music Week National Fix A Leak Week  Link National Fragrance Week Link 18-4/26 Orthodox Lent Shakespeare Week  Link Wellderly Week 20-24  LGBT Health Awareness Week Link 21-27 International Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination

Daily Observations

39 And Holding Day   Link American Diabetes Alert Day As Young As You Feel Day  Link Bavarian Crepes Day Goof Off Day (Goof-off ideas)

International Day of The Seal  National Goof-off Day Talk Like William Shatner Day Tuskegee Airmen Day World Day for Water (aka World Water Day)  Link World Day of Metta

Today’s Quote                                                         Today’s Meme

Today’s Thoughts

Finally, a sunny, spring day.

I’m not going to be sending money to help Trump get out of his financial bind. I remember hearing ‘He made his bed, let him lie in it.’

March madness has begun. I always enjoy watching North Carolina play. When I was at Red Lake Day School, those were our school colors. We were the only school on the Navajo Rez with those colors. Later, Window Rock started using those colors.

I had a good lunch with our retirement group. Good food, great conversations. Faith didn’t make it as she was taking a friend to therapy in Sedona, because the machine at the hospital here was out of order.

Terms with origins in rural America

Heard it through the grapevine

"Heard it through the grapevine" means learning something through gossip or rumor. One theory dates it to the informal way of communication through what was called a grapevine telegraph for people who were enslaved. Another theory ascribes the phrase to the early telegraph system in the 19th century that used miles of wire strung from poles that resembled grapevine trellises.

Influential Women

Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995). A Republican politician, Smith served in the House of Representatives from 1940-1949 and the Senate from 1949-1973. She was the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress. (Recommended biography here.)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896). The abolitionist and author’s most well-known work is the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which portrayed the impact of slavery on families and children. Its impact led to Stowe’s meeting with President Abraham Lincoln. (Recommended biography here.)

Historical Myths many believe…

The British Defeated Napoleon Alone

While the British army played a pivotal role in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, ultimately leading to Napoleon’s downfall, they weren’t the only force opposing him. The Prussian army (from modern-day Germany and surrounding countries like Poland) was also involved under Field Marshal Blücher and helped tip the scales in favor of the Allied forces.

Influential Native Americans…

Sojourner Truth (1797-1883). An abolitionist and women’s rights activist, Truth was born into slavery and escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. She became best known for her “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech on racial inequalities in 1851 at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention. (Recommended biography here.)

Historic Events

1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians killed 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population.

1945 – The Arab League was founded in Cairo, Egypt.

1993 – Intel Corporation shipped the first Pentium chips

Birthdays with some quotes

@93 – Pat Robertson, founded the Christian Broadcasting Network (d. 2023)
93 – William Shatner, Canadian actor @91 – Stephen Sondheim, American composer (d. 2021)
“Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that’s the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It’s its means of appreciating what’s in front of it.”

@84 – Marcel Marceau, French mime and actor (d. 2007)
@80 – Karl Malden, American actor (d. 2009)
@80 – Werner Klemperer, German-American actor (d. 2000)
77 – James Patterson, American author
76 – Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer

“Nobody seems to think it’s a good idea to mention mistakes, but I think it’s important to acknowledge the mistakes you’ve made in life because it’s really through those that you learn things. I’ve made hundreds.”

@74 – Chico Marx, American actor, Marx Brother (d. 1961; arteriosclerosis)
“Right now I’d do anything for money. I’d kill somebody for money. I’d kill you for money. Ha haha. Ah, no. You’re my friend. I’d kill you for nothing.

65 – Matthew Modine, American actor
@61 – Ross Martin, American actor (d. 1981; heart attack)
52 – Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater and sportscaster
48 – Reese Witherspoon, American actress
“I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It’s just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.”

35 – Tyler Oakley, American internet celebrity

…The End for today…