A Thought for the Day                

Sets of different crises that cascade and intermingle in unpredictable and dangerous fashion define the lives of almost everyone alive today so that, for the first time in aeons of the genus Homo’s existence, an existential crisis now applies in its affliction to every human being, every primate, every mammalian creature on Earth, at the same time that the sort of ‘consciousness’ that might elicit a response to such danger inheres at most in a few biological venues other than the Homo Sapiens, among whom, most unfortunately, some inchoate vast majority of sojourners fight and try to destroy the only ways of awareness that can respond constructively, and where possible positively, to the wide array of exigencies that so universally attest to the trials and travails that now delineate people’s pathways.

                    This Day in History                  

Today is a very educational day, as it marks National Education Day in Indonesia, and Teacher’s Day in Iran; burning out a long-burning candle of genius, four hundred ninety-eight years ago, the polymathic Leonardo da Vinci breathed his last; four hundred fifty-eight years ago, John Knox returned to Scotland from exile , soon to become a leader of the Scottish Reformation; fifty-two years hence, in 1611, literary history was made when the King James English version of the Bible was published in London for the first time; a century and eighteen years after that, in 1729, the legendary Cathering the Great of Russia was born; forty-three years still later on, in 1772, literary giant Novalis came to the world in Germany; three hundred sixty-five days from that point on, in 1773, a baby boy first cried out on his way to becoming Norwegian philosopher and poet Henrik Steffens;  MORE HERE

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