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Week 21 Day 140 Flag Today 73°/41° Wind 9 mph Gusts 18 mph Active Fire: 169 miles away Risk of fire: Extreme Nearest Lightning: 220 miles away Air Quality: Fair Partly Cloudy May Averages: Temps: 68°\34° Moisture: 3 Days
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Monthly Observations
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Teen CEO Month |
Tourette's Syndrome Awareness Month (5/15 - 6/15) Link |
Weekly Observations
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13-19 American
Craft Beer Week Link Hoarding
Awareness Week Link Cannes Film
Festival National
Foul Ball Week International
Heritage Breeds Week Link |
19-25 EMS
Week Link Link Link National
Eosinophil Awareness Week Link |
Daily Observations
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Accounting Day Link |
Pentecost |
Today’s Quote Today’s Meme
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Learn to value yourself,
which means: to fight for your happiness. --Ayn Rand
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Today’s Thoughts
A little cloudy but
lots of warmth. Fine Day.
While doing my
reading for today’s discussion group, I was reminded of a couple of things.
First, the old margarine commercial ‘It’s not nice to fool mother nature” and second,
many indigenous cultures believe that while many mainstream cultures believe
man can control nature, the indigenous believe we live in harmony with nature.
The articles I read were about climate change and how many groups are trying to
control nature with no understanding the severe consequences that could very easily
take place. This should be a good discussion.
Did you Know?
Origin of common phrases NEW!
Piece of cake
In the 19th century, it was common to
award cakes to winners at
competitions, hence the idea of something being a
"piece of cake." "Cakewalk,"
which has a similar meaning, was actually the name of a dance competition.
Plantation owners in the pre-Civil War South served as judges at cakewalks,
wherein enslaved people went through a series of complicated dance moves that
were most likely done in mockery of the plantation owners.
Historic Events
1848 – Mexico
ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War and
ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day US states to
the United States for $15 million.
1962 – Marilyn
Monroe sang her famous Happy Birthday to President John F. Kennedy at NYC’s
Madison Square Garden.
Birthdays with some quotes
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79 – Pete Townshend, English
singer-songwriter “Respect yourself. Try to
remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes.
That’s inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you
behave in an ugly way.” 76 – Grace Jones,
Jamaican-American singer-songwriter “I believe in
individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that
quality and let it live.” 41 – Michael Che, American
comedian 33 – Jordan Pruitt, American
singer-songwriter 32 – Marshmello (Christopher
Comstock), American electronic music producer and DJ 32 – Sam Smith, English
singer-songwriter
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@106
– Nicholas Winton, English banker and
humanitarian (d. 2015) “If something’s not
impossible, there must be a way of doing it.” @78
– Johns Hopkins, American businessman and
philanthropist (d. 1873) @74
– Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (d.
2019) @49
– Joey Ramone, American singer-songwriter
(d. 2001; lymphoma) “For me, punk is about
real feelings. It’s not about, ‘Yeah, I am a punk and I’m angry.’ That’s a
lot of crap. It’s about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart,
and soul.” @46
– André the Giant (André René Roussimoff),
French-American wrestler and actor (d. 1993; heart failure) “I don’t like to speak
badly of people.” @39
– Malcolm X (Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj
Malik el-Shabazz), American minister and activist (d. 1965; assassinated) “We need more light about
each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love
creates patience, and patience creates unity.” |
…The End for today…
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