When I was in the first and second grades I played marbles. The game was very popular in Blackfoot, Idaho and others had massive collections of the little glass, metal, and stone spheres which would be placed up for grabs if you won one of the many variant games we were playing.

I'd like to say I was good at it but I wasn't. I never amassed a collection of marbles to speak of and pretty much ended up losing all of mine to other players.

Today is World Marbles Day. It happens each Good Friday making it fall on March 29 this year. It commemorates the first British Marbles Championship that took place in England in 1588. The prize was the hand of a fair maiden in marriage.

I think not.

Anyway, the day is here and I don't really sport any marbles these days ... not that I wouldn't like to.

Happy World Marbles Day.
 

Never was much of a hat person. I have a Vietnam era boonie hat I wear on the tractor while cutting grass but that's about it.

I keep a hat frequently worn by my late father's on his deer antler rack in my living room. I do so in rememberance of him.

I believe the requirements for wearing hats in the Navy may have corrupted my attitude towards wearing head gear overall. There are rare instances when I will wear one but usually my bald head goes glistening in the breeze. I try not to fret over it all, however.

Today is Wear A Hat Day.

It is observed each March 26 as a vehicle to raise awarenness and funds for the field of brain tumor research.

I really cannot knock a hat for filling this role in the public domain. I always attempt to give money to good causes and I certainly would contribute to this one should the need arise. Those funds generated by Wear a Hat Day have resulted in advances in chemotherapy and radiation therapy such as Gamma Knife radiosurgery with subsequent increases in the survival rates for those with this terrible affectation. Newer improved modalities like computed tomography have made the fight more accurate from a standpoint of diagnosis and subsequent treatment.

There is no real prevention for brain tumors in patients. All we may really do is discuss the condition, contribute fundage, engage in experimenntal treatments and test trials then hope for an eventual cure.
 

It is disturbing to note that in my reading the cures are being suppressed by big pharma in favor of continuous treatments because they generate an uninterrupted revenue stream. Much like the stupidity of Eisenhower who declined energy technology from the Nordics opting instead for the disasterous Greada Treaty with the Zeta Reticulans aka "gray aliens". He left us to the whims of the fossil fuel and other energy companies and allowed extraterestrials to kidnap and experiment upon us. Can you say Dulce Base boys and girls ?

What stupidity in governnment we must continually suffer. From Dick Durbin and his credit card company exploits to the general criminality of the Biden family. To think we must continue to put up with the Biden administration in light of what has been proven and on top of everything else.

Daffodils

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

William Wordsworth