day 194 - working from home is a relief
Today is the 5th day of the 28th week, the 13th day of the 7th month, the 194th day of 2023, and:
- Barbershop Music Appreciation Day
- Beans 'n' Franks Day
- Embrace Your Geekness Day
- Feast of Kalimát, first day of the seventh month of the Baháʼí calendar
- Fool's Paradise Day
- Go West Day - back in 1865, Horace Greeley advised his readers to 'go west young man'
- Gruntled Workers Day
- International Day of Rock 'n' Roll
- National Be Your Own Hero Day
- National Beef Tallow Day
- National Delaware Day
- National French Fry Day
- National Nitrogen Ice Cream Day
- World Cup Soccer Day - anniversary observance
- and Voyager 1 is 22h 08m 41s of light travel time from Earth
On this day in...
1832 - Geographer, geologist, and ethnologist Henry Schoolcraft discovers the source of the Mississippi River
1835 - Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson files for a patent for his screw propeller design
1871 - The world's first championship cat show was organized by Harrison Weir and held in the Crystal Palace in London
1917 - the appearance of Our Lady of Fatima
1923 - the dedication of the HollywoodLand sign - the 'land' was dropped when the sign was renovated in 1949
1939 - Frank Sinatra makes his recording debut with The Harry James Orchestra
1949 - Pope Pius XII declares that Catholics cannot be communists upon pain of excommunication
1962 - US performs nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site
1966 - A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founds the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement) in New York City
1969 - Russia launches Luna 15 to the Moon
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1995 - Space shuttle STA-70 [Discovery 20] lauches
2018 - outline of a 5,000 year old henge discovered at New Grange, Ireland due to drought and using drone footage
Quote of the day:
"Our brains have evolved to keep us alive. They’re really good at being anxious, seeing the negative, and what can go wrong, and really bad at seeing the present moment just as it is."
~ Anthony Tshering, “How the Concept of Impermanence Can Help Anxiety-Ridden Millennials”
"Our brains have evolved to keep us alive. They’re really good at being anxious, seeing the negative, and what can go wrong, and really bad at seeing the present moment just as it is."
~ Anthony Tshering, “How the Concept of Impermanence Can Help Anxiety-Ridden Millennials”
So instead of subjecting everyone to the blogger version of Groundhog Day, here's a picture of Triscuit chilling out on the lounge chair next to my workstation
May we all achieve that level of acceptance of what is and will be while we enjoy the present moments!
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