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This Thankful Day is special and sad. Even when the news isn't good, there are always reasons to be thankful.
I want to thank all who prayed or sent good thoughts and wishes to my friend DiDreaming (Diane).
She has died, and I am very sad. Between the damage chemo did to her body 15 years ago, her asthma, pulmonary hypertension, and the latest bout with a completely different cancer from the first one, i believe her body simply got tired.
At the same time, I am thankful for all she meant in my life.
I'm thankful she was willing to reach out beyond the computer screen and meet new people (including me) in real life.
I'm thankful we got to go to the zoo together, among other adventures.
I'm thankful we both loved ethnic foods, and enjoyed various restaurant meals together.
I'm thankful she loved to share stories of Small Bad Dog, Gracie. (Gracie died just before she was diagnosed with cancer this time.)
I'm thankful we could talk about anything.
I'm thankful for her fabulous sense of humor.
I'm thankful she also liked going to the church that meets at the Flora-Bama Bar.
I'm thankful i got to see her every summer when we went on vacation.
I'm sorry i will not see her this year, but i am thankful she is at peace.
Please write up your own list and link up to Ten Things of Thankful, where Dyanne and her co-hosts always have a warm welcome waiting.
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Today is:
APAWS International Pooper Scooper week -- The Association of Professional Animal Waste Specialists believe every dog should have its day, but not on someone else's lawn!
April Fool's Day a/k/a Huntingowk Day or Gowkie Day in Scotland, because an April Fool is called a gowk; in England it is All Fools Day or April Noddy Day, as an April fool is a "noddy"
Azalea Festival -- Muskogee, OK, US (month long celebration with citywide events throughout)
Capture of Brielle Remembrance -- Brielle, Netherlands
Civil Service Day -- Thailand
Community Spirit Days -- an open invitation, all month long, for any town or community to involve itself in a special service project
Day of Hathor -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Edible Book Day -- Sponsored by the Edible Book Festival, Austin, TX, US (celebrating books and culinary creativity by making edible representations of books, then eating them)
Every Day is Tag Day™ -- make sure your pet has an up to date tag or microchip, just in case!
Fossil Fools Day -- part of the conservationist movement of many organizations that want us to decrease reliance on fossil fuels and stop corporate polluters
Greek Cypriot Day -- Cyprus (EOKA Day)
International Fun at Work Day -- originally sponsored by Playfair, which encourages non-foolish humor that is non-toxic
International Pillow Fight Day -- yes, really (organizers used to have huge fights set in large cities, since Covid ended that, have a fight at your own house and join the fun!)
International Tatting Day
Investiture of the New Captains Regent -- San Marino (sometimes listed as National Day)
Kalends of April -- Ancient Roman Empire; also
Festival of Fortuna Virilis -- Fortune in her role of bringing luck to women who want better relationships with men
Veneralia -- ritual yearly washing of the statue of Venus
Kha b-Nisan -- Assyrians (traditional New Year celebration)
Loki's Day -- by some calculations, but more likely it was moved to this date to celebrate the trickster of all time on the trickiest day of the year
Miyako Odori -- Kobu Kaburenjo Theatre, Kyoto, Japan ("Dance of the Old Capital", the highly anticipated geisha dance and music festival, through the 30th)
National Sourdough Bread Day
Orissa Day -- Orissa, India
One Cent Day -- no history on this, just noted on several sites
Pigasus Award Announcement Day -- by James Randi, awarded to parapsychological, paranormal or psychic frauds
Reading is Funny Day -- a day to read riddles, jokes, and fun things with kids to show them how great reading can be
School Year Begins -- Japan, most schools and universities
Sizdeh Be-dar -- Iran (Nature Day, an ancient Persian celebration to get out and joyfully spend the day outdoors)
Skagit Valley Tulip Festival -- Skagit Valley, WA, US; through the 30th
Sorry Charlie Day -- a day to recognize Charlie the Tuna, always rejected but never giving up, and anyone who has ever been rejected and lived to tell about it
St. Gilbert de Moray's Day (Patron of Caithness, Scotland)
St. Stupid's Day (First Church of the Last Laugh)
Tangible Karma™ Day -- set aside an hour today to become purposefully aware of the needs of someone around you, and to fulfill that need; because giving feels as good as receiving
Tree Loving Week begins -- South Korea (always the week that includes April 5, their Arbor Day)
Uzupis Day -- Uzupis District, Vilnius, Lithuania
Anniversaries Today:
Nunavut becomes Canada's third independent territory, 1999
Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye LaValley, 1961
Birthdays Today:
Randy Orton, 1980
Jon Gosselin, 1977
Rachel Maddow, 1973
Susan Boyle, 1961
Libby Riddles, 1956
Annette O’Toole, 1953
Samuel A. Alito, Jr, 1950
David Eisenhower, 1947
Daniel Joseph “Rusty” Staub, 1944
Ali MacGraw, 1938
Gordon Jump, 1932
Debbie Reynolds, 1932
Jane Powell, 1929
Anne McCaffrey, 1926
Toshiro Mifune, 1920
Abraham Maslow, 1908
Clara "Mother" Hale, 1905
Lon Chaney, 1883
Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1873
Otto von Bismarck, 1815
William Harvey, 1578
Emperor Go-Saga of Japan, 1220
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"The Will Rogers Follies"(Musical), 1991
"General Hospital"(TV), 1963
"The Doctors"(TV), 1963
"Der blaue Engel/The Blue Angel"(Film; premier of Marlene Dietrich), 1930
Today in History:
The ruins of the city of Pompeii are found, 1748
Japan's volcano Unsen erupts, killing about 53,000, 1793
Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine, 1826
Cincinnati becomes the first US city to pay firefighters, 1853
Singapore, Penang & Malakka become British crown colonies, 1867
The London-Paris telephone connection is opened, 1891
The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois, 1891
The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service, 1918
The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed, 1924
Generalisimo Frederico Franco announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, 1939
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake near the Aleutian Islands creates a tsunami that strikes Hawai'i, killing 159, 1946
The twenty-six counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland, 1949
The Canadian government repeals Japanese Canadian internment after seven years, 1949
The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti tree hoax on its current affairs programme Panorama, 1957
Project Tiger, a tiger conservation program, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India, 1973
Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, 1976
The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia is created, 1996
Comet Hale-Bopp is seen passing over perihelion, 1997
Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories, 1999
Croatia and Albania join NATO, 2009
The world’s first smelling TV screen is unveiled in Japan, 2013
Bob Dylan receives his Nobel Prize for Literature at a private ceremony in Stockholm, 2017
The discovery of a major archaeological site on a reef in the middle of Lake Titicaca, in the Andes, and dating to the 8th and 10th centuries AD, is announced, 2019
For the first time ever, online sales in the US overtake retail brick and mortar store sales, with 11.813% online compared with 11.807% for general merchandise stores, 2019
The journal Nature Geoscience publishes a study confirming that the European Space Agency's Mars Explorer orbiter, in 2013, did discover methane on Mars, a gas usually only produced by living things, 2019
I am so sorry about your friend, and thankful that you met, and that you remember her with love.
ReplyDeleteI feel sorry for your loss, but I also sympathise with your thankfulness that you ever met.
ReplyDeleteI am so sorry for the loss of your friend, Diane. She suffered but now she is in a better place with no more suffering. May she rest in peace. A beautiful thankful post as a tribute to your dear friend.
ReplyDeleteI am so sorry for your loss. Twice in such a short time could be devastating, but you have honoured them by appreciating the pawsitives they brought to your life.
ReplyDeleteyour friendship with DiDreaming will remain with you for life. To be thankful for that kind of friend is wonderful in the midst of sad.
ReplyDeletePraying for you and for Diane and family. May she rest in peace.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
I am sorry for the loss of your friend.Such a beautiful tribute to her. Glad you have many good memories. XO
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry for your loss.
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I am grateful you have such loving memories of your dear friend ~ Diane ~ so hard to lose our significant people ~ lots of healing hugs to you, dear one ~
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
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Sorry for your loss
ReplyDeleteOh, Mimi, I am so sorry for your loss. You are such a kind and good and positive person and I think of how that must have been so soothing for Diane. Hugs and prayers, my friend.
ReplyDeleteI'm very sorry to hear about your friend Diane. We can tell she added joy to your life. Hugs from all of us.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry for your loss. May you find comfort and peace through your faith and the good memories you shared.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry she has died, but thankful now that she no longer suffers and thankful also for the times you spent together.
ReplyDeleteSurely we are all at an (understandable) risk of being overwhelmed by the sadness that ushers in a loss (of a person or others) in our lives.
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I'm so happy for her that she is no longer in pain, but so sad for you who will be missing her. Friends are just so important in our lives!
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