July 24, 2022
QUOTE
The dividing line between friends and acquaintances is communication, I think. A friend is someone to whom you can say any jackass thing that enters your mind. With acquaintances, you are forever aware of their slightly unreal image of you, and to keep them content, you edit yourself to fit. Many marriages are between acquaintances. You can be with a person for three hours of your life and have a friend. Another will remain an acquaintance for thirty years.
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, then you know he never will.
To me organized religion, the formalities and routines, is like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.
Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist.
Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.
All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up.
--John D. MacDonald
BIRTHDAYS
1802 – Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright
1897 – Amelia Earhart, American pilot and author
1899 – Chief Dan George, Canadian actor
IN MEMORY
759 – Oswulf, king of Northumbria
1862 – Martin Van Buren, Lawyer and politician, eighth President of the United States
1980 – Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian
2021 – Dale Snodgrass, United States Naval Aviator and air show performer
IN ON THIS DAY
1866 – Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to Congress following the American Civil War.
1901 – O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1915 – The passenger ship SS Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed.
1935 – The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 °F in Chicago and 104 °F in Milwaukee.
1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
1969 – Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.