Today's being treated as a momentous day in the newspaper. Will it join those days of catastrophic impacts? These sorts of events compose the club of: I remember where I was the day that....
John F. Kennedy assassinated
Neil Armstrong walks on the moon
Chernobyl meltdown
The space shuttle Challenger exploded
Tiananmen Square massacre
Princess Diana killed
9/11 attacks
Hurricane Katrina
COVID-10 emergency lockdown
Jan 6th Capitol attack
There are more events in the typical lists. I wonder how many are on your list.
My thought is that for something to be on the list, the test goes something like: where you were, what was the day, year, time of day, how did you find out, and what subsequently occurred. The answers are specific and exact, not general or vague.
Are there any events after the Jan 6th insurrection? Yes, definitely. There's the Invasion of Ukraine and the Hamas attack. It could also be that the 2024 eclipse of the sun is an event that people will specifically remember.
Will today be such a day? Or it may be the day when "the world changed" - something like. Not immediately catastrophic, but a launch date. I think many of us will tune in to find out how it will unfold. And what lies ahead after that. Now we need to develop the criteria for judging the days ahead.
Here is a series of pictures of a tropical geranium (not the pot geranium which is actually Pelargonium, but the perennial) in Longwood Gardens' conservatory. It seems so remarkable with its fuzzy hair buds and beautifully lined flower.
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