One of those holdovers from my childhood is the fact that I will pick up a coin found on a parking lot, sidewalk, or other pedestrian area.

The condition of the coin is not important. I have a place for the boogered up cull coins as well as those in good enough condition for my collection.

I personally think that the practice is okay — even though I've taken quite a bit of heat for the activity over the years, particularly in the 8th grade in Key West with the references being that I was of Judah while walking home from school. I didn't take offense because I have always felt it perfectly fine to be of Judah.

Some of the best friends in my entire life were either from Judah — or one of the other eleven tribes.

Today we have National Lucky Penny Day.

It is celebrated on May 23 but nobody can tell me regarding it's origin. Ostensibly if you find a penny you should pick it up for good luck. I would pick it up simply because I encountered it. You never can tell someday I may indeed encounter true luck due to the activity ...

But it hasn't happened as of yet. Oh well, patience is the art of hoping.

Happy National Lucky Penny Day to you and good luck !
 

My mother is a Solitaire aficionado. She plays numerous games online at the expert level.

She likely gets this from her mother, who likewise played a lot of Solitaire in her day.

We used to comment on how much we wished she had been able to play the game on a computer but alas, she did not see that era and such is the tragedy of what might have become something special for her.

Today is National Solitaire Day.

It is held on May 22 to celebrate the card game called solitaire as well as the entertainment factor which accompanies it.

The online literature tends to stress how Microsoft released the first computerized version as if it had never been played before that.

Grandma Sallie was playing solitaire when I was an infant. She used one or two decks of cards when she played. It was amazing to she how she was occupied for hours on end playing those games.

The video games came many many years later.

So when you think of National Solitaire Day try to remember that it predates the personal computer by scores of years and that in the final summation of solitaire the game itself Microsft really isn't anything except a lot of worthless braggadocio.
 

Joe Biden has deliberately compromised our national security by refusing to enforce immigration laws to secure our border, allowed approximately 6 million illegals from over 170 countries to invade our country, deprived border patrol of the necessary resources and policies sufficient to protect our country. And his administration has willfully refused to maintain operational control, as required by the law.

Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)

Throughout my life I have been intrigued by Malcolm X. It follows that my interest has caused me to become somewhat of a student of Malcolm X over the years. It wasn't some conscious effort on my part. I simply found our paths intersecting in various projects I assumed during my life and sometimes various studies of him and his work came into play.
 

After reading his autobiography in high school; I always thought his story was both tragic and interesting. Inasmuch as we had similar notions in diverse areas I always wondered if we might have become friends had we known each other. As fate would have it we will never know now.

Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little) and later changed his name to el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz was a American Muslim minister and human rights activist who became prominent during the civil rights movement circa 1954. He was born May 19, 1925 and died on February 21, 1965.

He became a spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964. He continued to advocate for black empowerment and the promotion of Islam in the black community.

He was disenchanted with the leader of the Nation of Islam after discovering the philandering of Elijah Mohammad. This corresponded with his departure from the Nation of Islam and subsequent founding of the Muslim Mosque, Inc.

This inspired him to make a pilgrimage to Mecca where he discovered that Islam included all races and he set aside his disdain for whites by and large seeking a cooperative rather than adversarial role.

Upon his return to the United States he began receiving death threats against him and his family by the Nation of Islam and was assassinated on February 21, 1965 while onstage preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. Following the public viewing on February 23–26 at Unity Funeral Home in Harlem — which was attended by some 14,000 to 30,000 mourners — he was buried at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Friends took up the gravediggers' shovels to complete the burial themselves.

He had collaborated with Alex Haley on his autobiography which was released posthumously in 1965.

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