Thoughts on the Day:

[partly]

Today is:

Summer Cool-Off Day (The day lemonade was invented in Paris 1630)
National Radio Day
Tucson Birthday 1775

Okay... it hasn't been warm enough this summer to need a cool-off day. I do like lemonade, so I guess I will have to be glad that it was invented in 1630.

You know though, I've got the feeling that "inventing" lemonade is a lot like "discovering" a new world: It's really only the publicizing of the "invention" or "discovery" that merits an anniversary.

Not that I mind so much. I never had a problem realizing that Columbus' "discovery" of the America's wasn't the first or only time someone had arrived on the land. Even as a child, I understood Native Americans had to have known of the existence of the land they lived on. I mean, duh!

Yay! A post. A POST

To those who may be interested, I have actually been writing. This is a good thing.

Comments

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

I never understood the conflict beyond the idea that Leif Erikson had beat Columbus by a few centuries. The "discovery" was the Europeans discovering a new part of the globe to that point unseen, I didn't even know third graders to not understand that our written historical context has a European base. To me that whole argument is apologist gobbledygook based on the nonsense that the natives were peace loving earth tenders before the evil swam ashore and that Columbus and his ilk were genocidal maniacs.

As for the temp, I'd think we've set the cause of global warming back a century or two. I don't ever remember frost in August and I'm over 50. This has been the chilliest summer I've witnessed. I like it that way lol, but it's weird.