East Is East - 30 December 2020 - Plague Journal Day 293

Micah 6:8
Psalm 103:6-12
Yes, your life matters.

We all are still sheltering in place, but I'm here to keep you sane and entertained.
One could hardly ask for much more than that, now could one?

Today would have been Rudyard Kipling's 155th birthday (he was born in 1865 if you want to check my subtraction). If your only encounters with Kipling have been the various animated versions of "The Jungle Book," I would like to recommend that you read his original, or - probably better yet - find some of his other stuff and read it. Novels, short stories, poems, Kipling did it all, and he did it with style. (Some of our more over-modernized readers may need a warning that this stuff wasn't written in the current politically correct environment, but rather in a different time altogether. Please, use your brains and empathy when reading - unless you really do like being intolerant.)

  

We're all still in celebratory, holiday mode, so I'm very happy to inform you that today is Bacon Day! I'm fairly certain that the creators of this day meant us to remember neither Roger nor Sir Francis, but rather that tasty pork product. You have my permission to celebrate any of the three.

Making me even more convinced that it's the tasty meat version that's being feted today is the fact that today is also National Bicarbonate of Soda Day. It seems a likely consequence of the first celebration, no?


Keep Calm and Stay Away.
I'll be back tomorrow.
The mental health issues related to our lockdown and the pandemic are especially hard for people with depression. NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, has a 24 hour helpline: 800-950-6264.