Day 152 - at least it is actually a Thursday

Today is the 5th day of the 22nd week, the 1st day of the 6th month, the 152nd day of 2023, and:

• Baby Boomers Recognition Day
• CNN Day - first started broadcasting 43 years ago and became a go-to program for someone in a hotel room looking for anything to watch late at night 
• Dare Day
• Dinosaur Day
• Don't Give Up the Ship Day
• Flip a Coin Day - sometimes when I am dithering, and really don't care much which action I take [like what to eat], I'll ask Alexa to flip a coin.  While it is random, it does seem as tho 'heads' comes up more often 
• Global Day of Parents
• Heimlich Maneuver Day - on this day in 1974, the maneuver was first published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine 
• Independence Day - Samoa from New Zealand in 1962
• International Children's Day - can somebody please explain to me why so many politicians seem to think it is okay for businesses to use child labor?  I thought capitalism had outgrown that
• International IGBO Day 
• International Table Top Day
• National Game Show Day
• National Go Barefoot Day
• National Hazelnut Cake Day
• National Maritime Day
• National Moonshine Day
• National Nail Polish Day
• National Olive Day
• National Pen Pal Day - I acquired and lost different pen pals through my junior and senior high school years, a couple that I wrote to quite a bit.  I don't remember how we stopped writing, but now and then, I wonder what happened to them 
• National Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Day
• New Year's Resolution Recommitment Day
• Oscar the  Grouch Day - all you have to do is be grouchy!  I can do that
• Say Something Nice Day - thus proclaimed by the then mayor of North Charleston back in 2010
• Stand For Children Day
• Superman's Birthday - well it was in a comic book, but apparently the Man of Steel's actual birthday isn't clear.  Guess it's hard to translate the Krypton calendar to the Earth calendar 
• Wear a Dress Day - well that ship sailed without me!
• World Milk Day
• World Narcissistic Abuse Day
• World Reef Awareness Day
• the beginning of Crop Over, which is celebrated until the first Monday of August 

Quote of the day:

"If we indulge the human propensity to understate, exaggerate, and alter facts for whatever comfort or false security a lie might accord us, we forfeit our capacity to see reality clearly, and see only a world of our own invention." 

~  Lin Jensen, “Right Lying”  (( it is a hallmark of today's heated political environment that leads me to the disclaimer that 'right' does not refer to the current party of 'alternative facts' ))

There are two things that I firmly believe when it comes to historical facts:

Everyone who records happenings does so from their own perspective of what is important and what is not

AND

As the old saw goes, truth is a three-edged sword

In 'Good Omens', while awaiting the end of the world, her descendent explains how Agnes Nutter prophesized and why those prophesies were usually for everyday life.  The issue was, what Agnes considered important.  The example give was that she did write about November 22nd, 1963 almost 400 years ahead of time - but all she said about the day was a house collapsed in a small English village.  Why?  Because one of her descendants was in that village and she wanted them to know there was danger.  America didn't even exist as a country at the time, and the assassination of a president didn't seem all that vital for her prosperity to know.  Did a house fall down on that day in that village?  Well it isn't recorded anywhere, but one can assume it did since supposedly Agnes was incredibly accurate, but I doubt you'd find it in any history book.  And this is the problem with all of recorded history, the person writing it all down gets to prioritize, according their mindset, what was going on.

As to my second statement, as a kid, I often listened to how my two grandmothers saw the rift between my parents.  They were each talking about the same events, but the perception of what had happened was quite different.  It was a real eyeopener and in a way hobbled me.  Even when I was the aggrieved party, I could always see the other's POV.  There is nothing that makes me throw the 'done' switch faster than having someone agree there was two sides to every story -  then add it was my side and the truth.

*looks wistful*

Of course, when you are dealing with reconciliations, and answering questions from Accounting, I'm afraid that telling them the account balances from "a certain point of view" Just doesn't doesn't fly.  Trust me, I've tried.