It is the 18th day of May 2022. Another totally unique day, just like yesterday, awaits. I will do today what I did yesterday. That doesn’t mean I’m in a rut, it means that I enjoy doing the things I do. It all begins with writing to you in this post. Today is I Love Reese’s® Day, International Museum Day, National Visit Your Relatives Day, National No Dirty Dishes Day, Send an Electronic Greeting Card Day and National Cheese Soufflé Day. Who doesn’t like a peanut butter cup? Now, to the history of this day: We begin with this day in 1096 that the Crusaders decided to kill all the Jews who lived in Worms, Germany. 800 Jews were killed. On this day in 1652, Rhode Island passed the 1st law declaring slavery illegal. In 1830 Edwin Budding of England signed an agreement for the manufacture of his invention, the lawn mower. Saturdays were destroyed forever. On this day in 1896 the US Supreme court affirmed the legitimacy of racial separation in Plessy v Ferguson. This is where “Separate but equal” came from and would not be effectively overturned until 1954 under Brown vs. Board of Education. This is the day in 1897 when “Dracula” by Irish author Bram Stoker was published. Now some words of wisdom from the departed. Mary McLeod Bethune was a civil rights activist who passed in 1955. Mary said, “Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.” Next is Jeannette Rankin who is the first woman to be elected to the House of Representatives. She said, “Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They’re killed because one of them has a gun.” “War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies.” I’ll end with a quote from Jacque Fresco who was a futurist. Jacque died in 2017 at the age of 101. Hope I’m that fortunate. Here is his quote: “The question is not whether there is intelligent life out here, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.” Abide.