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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday and Sandee at Comedy Plus.
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Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and has become a moveable feast of word or picture or music prompts to encourage us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy.
This month, the prompts are being provided by Charlotte/Mother Owl.
Death
Truth
Chemistry
Restaurant
Mom
Opportunity
Fact
Agency
Instruction
Clothes
Philosophy
People
As a MOM of grown children, you still have a lot of concern for your children. The TRUTH is you never cease to be a parent.
It's a FACT, when something happens to upset one of your children's apple carts, you have to take that as an OPPORTUNITY to do nothing unless you are asked and let the child use it as an opportunity to grow. Even if you think it will be the DEATH of you, keep it to yourself and let them handle business until and unless they seek advice or help.
#1 Son had knee surgery recently, i've shared it, and he's doing very well. He was off work a week, and it was more than enough for him. He ended up not needing physical therapy, or even using the crutches much.
While he was gone, the RESTAURANT where he works blew up.
The local power company (an AGENCY often railed at around here) was working on something up the street from the strip mall where his work is. Somebody doesn't know how to follow the INSTRUCTION manual, obviously, and sent a power surge through the building.
The surge protector blew up, every outlet in the building blew up, the electronics in the oven controls blew up, every computer/cash register blew up -- all of it, fried to a crisp and now a useless bucket of parts.
He's ready to go back to work, and there's no work to go back to.
Sometimes you take a j-o-b because you have to, but when you have work, and you're there for years, it's not just the uniform CLOTHES and the location, it's the PEOPLE, it's the customers, it's the unique CHEMISTRY of that workplace, it's the fact that you moved to the apartment you're in because it's not far, it's knowing and liking their system, it's a big part of your life.
My PHILOSOPHY is it all happens for a reason, The A-mighty has a purpose, there's a bigger plan. #1 Son will come to see it that way, eventually.
Meanwhile, he's waiting to see if the owners are going to try to repair and rebuild and reopen that location, or if he's going to be taking his brother up on a job offer.
(Yes, this really happened!)
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Today is:
Best Friends Day -- as declared by the ecard people
Bounty Anniversary Day -- Norfolk Island (celebrates the arrival of the Bounty descendants from Pitcairn Island)
Feast of Bona Mens -- Ancient Roman Calendar (goddess of right thinking, the personification of the mind)
Judgement Day -- Fairy Calendar (The Good and Evil are given their just rewards)
Lindisfarne Day -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan (commemorating the Viking raid on Lindisfarne in 793)
Name Your Poison Day -- just another wacky holiday with no explanations
National Caribbean-American Health and Aids Awareness Day -- US
National Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day
National Time Out Day -- US, sponsored by The Association of Operating Room Nurses, which wants everyone involved in surgeries to take time out before the procedure to verify the surgery site, type, and patient and decrease OR errors
Primoz Trubar Day -- Slovenia (birth anniversary of the author of the first Slovene language books and consolidated the Slovene language)
St. Medard's Day (Patron of brewers, captives, imprisoned people, mentally ill people, peasants, prisoners, vineyards; for good harvests, good weather, and rain; against bad weather, imprisonment, sterility, and toothache) related event:
Festival of the Rose -- Salency, France (on St. Medard's Day, and supposedly begun by that saint before the year 545)
Upsy Daisy Day -- the day to remind people to get up joyfully and gratefully each morning (tell that to my sleep-til-noon family!)
Vacuum Cleaner Day -- Ives W. McGaffee obtained a patent on this day in 1869 for the first carpet cleaner that worked on a vacuum principle
Watch Day -- the sign that you are over 30, you still wear a watch!
World Brain Tumor Day -- International
Anniversary Today:
Christopher O'Neill marries Princess Madeleine of Sweden, 2013
Birthdays Today:
Kim Clijsters, 1983
Kayne West, 1977
Julianna Margulies, 1966
Keenen Ivory Wayans, 1958
Scott Adams, 1957
Tim Berners-Lee, 1955
Griffin Dunne, 1955
Kathy Baker, 1950
Sara Paretsky, 1947
Boz Scaggs, 1944
Don Grady, 1944
Andrew Weil, MD, 1942
Nancy Sinatra, 1940
Bernie Casie, 1939
James Darren, 1936
Joan Rivers, 1933
Jerry Stiller, 1927
Barbara Bush, 1925
Robert Preston, 1918
Byron Raymond White, 1917
Francis Crick, 1916
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Trading Places(Film), 1983
Malaeska; The Indian Wife of the White Hunter(First "dime novel", Publication date), 1860
Today in History:
Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England, 793
Richard the Lionheart's Crusade begins with his arrival at Acre, 1191
American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec, 1776
The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine, 1783
Mr. Hall of NYC advertises the first commercially made ice cream, 1786
Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents the first vacuum cleaner, 1869
Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punched card calculator, 1887
Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value, 1906
Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures, 1912
Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater, 1948
The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons, 1953
The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1992
The first Transit of Venus since 1882 takes place, 2004
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years, 2007
Australia bans live cattle exports to Indonesia for up to six months in response to reports of cruel treatment at Indonesian slaughterhouse, 2011
The world's most powerful supercomputer, Summit, which can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second, is launched at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, by IBM and NVidia, 2018
The World Bank says it expects the global economy to shrink this year by 5.2% due to Covid-19, 2020
National Geographic announces it is officially recognizing the South Ocean (Antarctic) as the world's fifth ocean, 2021