June 22, 2022
QUOTE
Note From Minnifield: Long quote today. This is a song Kris wrote called Here Comes that Rainbow Again. It was one of Johnny Cash’s favorite songs. It’s worth listening to. Causing small loving gestures do matter. And just so you know, Kris was really nice to me on day in Jackson Mississippi when I was three sheets to the wind and he was performing at the Medgar Evers Benefit at the Jackson Fairgrounds. I introduced myself and he talked with me till I ran out of steam. Hell of a nice guy. Thanks Kris. Small loving gestures.
Here comes that Rainbow again
The scene was a small roadside cafe
The waitress was sweepin’ the floor
Two truck-drivers drinkin’ their coffee
And two okie-kids by the door
How much are them candies, they asked her
How much have you got, she replied
We’ve only a penny between us
Them’s two for a penny, she lied
And the daylight grew heavy with thunder
With the smell of the rain on the wind
Ain’t it just like a human
Here comes that rainbow again
One truck driver called to the waitress
After the kids went outside
Them candies ain’t two for a penny
So what’s it to you, she replied
In silence they finished their coffee
Got up and nodded good bye
She called, hey, you left too much money
So what’s it to you, they replied
And the daylight grew heavy with thunder
With the smell of the rain on the wind
Ain’t it just like a human
Here comes that rainbow again
--Kris Kristofferson
BIRTHDAYS
1792 – James Beaumont Neilson, Scottish engineer and businessman
1922 – Bill Blass, Fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Group
1936 – Kris Kristofferson, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1943 – Brit Hume, Journalist and author
1949 – Meryl Streep, American actress
IN MEMORY
1969 – Judy Garland, Actress and singer
1987 – Fred Astaire, Actor and dancer
1993 – Pat Nixon, Educator, 37th First Lady of the United States
2008 – George Carlin, Comedian, actor, and author
IN ON THIS DAY
1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
1783 – The eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland. An estimated 120,000,000 long tons of sulfur dioxide was emitted causing a thick haze to spread across western Europe, resulting in many thousands of deaths. The weather became very hot, causing severe thunderstorms with large hailstones that were reported to have killed cattle, In North America, the winter of 1784 was the longest and one of the coldest on record. It was the longest period of below-zero temperatures in New England, with the largest accumulation of snow in New Jersey, and the longest freezing over of Chesapeake Bay. A huge snowstorm hit the South; the Mississippi River froze at New Orleans and there were reports of ice floes in the Gulf of Mexico
1870 – The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress.
1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio