Micah 6:8
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Yes, your life matters.
Some of you are still sheltering in place, but fear not: I'm here to keep you sane and entertained.
One could hardly ask for much more than that, now could one?
Some of you may have followed our posts from the 2009 GPUMC Heritage Tour to England. If so, you may remember that the first real post from there was about The Day That Never Ends (a play on that childhood favourite, "this is the song that never ends, yes it goes on and on, my friends." sorry if it's stuck in your head now). Well to help smooth that canlendrical wrinkle, just about two and a half years later,
Samoa and Tokelau skipped December 30 2011. Yes on this day in history in those islands nothing happened, because the day didn't exist.
"How can that be?" you wonder. Well, Samoa and Tokelau changed their time zone and moved west of the international dateline to align their time zone with Australia and New Zealand. To do so they simply skipped December 30 and moved directly from December 29 to December 31. Technically the islands didn't move across the date line, the date line was moved across them.
It took a crew of several thousand workers with long poles to lift the line over the various (fortunately not very tall) obstructions on the islands and settle it in its current position, just East of the islands.
On an actual 30 December, this one in 1865, the fabulous author and poet, Rudyard Kipling, was born. I really enjoy all that I've read of his writing, and would encourage you to find something he wrote and read it today to wish him a Happy Birthday!
Keep Calm and Don't Stay Away.
I'll be back tomorrow.
The mental health issues related to our insane 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.
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