Some days, I’m not sure what to write. I’ve been doing this daily since 2010. That’s about eleven years of baking bread here. There’s so much going on in the world. It should be easy enough to talk about anything. But sometimes, I try to guess what might be interesting for the reader. I want this to be user-friendly, after all. Tasty.
This day, for instance, seems hard.
The word that first came to mind was despondent. It is all about this lengthy battle we’ve each experienced with the pandemic and trying to stay safe and healthy. I would like to have the vaccine, but I have to wait for my time and place like any other 57-year-old Ohioan. Most of my friends have it in their arms by now, and my siblings too. I run with the older crowd, I guess. Call me Wild Thing. But the vaccine will come, and I must be patient until it does. However, patience has never been one of my strong suits.
But on to the rest of the world and trying to blog it.
I could tell you that it is Michelangelo’s birthday. But I’ve done that before, several times, I might add. For the record, the date hasn’t changed. He came into the world in 1475, probably with all that talent pre-packed.
The same thing goes for Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the poet. She touched down on planet earth in 1806. She left again 55 years later, in 1861. And that’s how it goes. But I’m repeating myself.
I might write about something in current events. One of the headlines today announced that Nicholas Cage got married for the fifth time. Yes, indeed, Nick, old boy. Here’s how they go.
Patricia Arquette (1995-2001)
Lisa Marie Presley (2002-2004)
Kim (2004-2016)
Erika Koike (2019 for four days)
And now the latest, Riko Shibata.
Riko is 26 years old. Nick is 57. It might be the one. But, I don’t want to explore that any further because, like a bad car accident, I will sound like the patrol officer at the scene. “Move along, folks. There’s nothing more to see here.”
We could look at the world of exploration. It was on this date, in 1521, that Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam. Guam.
That is the tiny little island out in the middle of a lot of deep water. I would say that it is sort of near the Philippines, but not really. It is floating around in the western Pacific Ocean. Guam is an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States in Micronesia. For those who care. And, if you are planning a move and starting a family, Guamanians get American citizenship by birth. Hats off to Magellan, I suppose.
Of course, today is the anniversary of the Alamo. The end of the Alamo, I should say. But who really wants to hear about the Alamo again. I mean. After 13 days of fighting, 1,500-3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelmed the men who were defending the fort, most of them Texans. The Americans killed in that battle numbered between 182-257. This always makes me a little sad because Davy Crockett died there. I liked his hat. The other thing? I think they could narrow the number of casualties down a little. That’s like almost 80 guys they’re not sure about, who may or may not have died there. Either way, they are long gone by now. By the way, there is a car rental business called Alamo. I think it is a poor choice of monikers.
At this point in my blogging, it feels like most everything is a rerun. Today is the date, in 1869, when Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table of the elements to the Russian Chemical Society. I know I’ve written about this, as I am a huge fan of chemistry and that table of elements. My initials are Phosphorus. Carbon. Potassium. Not many people can get their initials from the table, as there are only a few single letters listed there. I’m not sure what molecule I’d make, though.
So, that’s all I don’t know about what I could possibly write today that might hold your attention. Let’s just call this “Day Old Bread Day.”
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“The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.”
― William Hazlitt
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“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
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“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
― Mary Oliver
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What to do on an eleven year rerun.
