Happy Birthday to Me

Today is my birthday - I have survived another year and am looking forward with hope for another creative year to come.  I will be printing out the transfers for my copper etching when I get to the shop this morning.  I need the laser printer for that - an inkjet won't work for this application.  If I ever don't have the shop, I'll have to break down and purchase a laser printer for my own use so that I can continue etching (I like the quality of laser printers also ). 

In history, May 11 is a remarkably uneventful day. Even in the Catholic Church, there are Saints on the 10th and on the 12th, but nothing on the 11th, although there is the Commemoration of SS Philip & James the Less, apostles. I'm not really sure what a Commemoration is, but it happens on this date :-) Irving Berlin (composer of White Christmas) was born on May 11.  That's a good one.  Choreographer, Martha Graham was also born on this date.  My aunt, Vera Sears, was a compatriot of Martha Graham.  Salvadore Dali, the artist, was born on this date.  Maybe he gave me a small part of my eccentricity.  I share my date with the fashion designer, Valentino.  I wish I had a bit more of his fashion sense.  I also share a birth date with Louis Farrakhan - oh well, I can't win them all :-)  In 1751, the 1st US hospital (Pennsylvania Hospital) was founded on this date.  And in 1858 Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd US state (guess that's important, since that's my state of residence).  It is International Mother's Day, so if you missed giving your mother a phone call on Sunday, call her today!  And just to rub salt in the political wounds of the current world, here's proof that politics always is a disaster.  On May 11, in 1682, The General Court of Massachusetts repealed two laws which had been passed two years earlier: one forbade the keeping of Christmas, and the second mandated capital punishment for Quakers who returned to the colony after being banished.

Have an excellent and creative day.  I enjoyed walking through history a little bit with all of you.