Tu B'shuvat – This
is a Jewish holiday that celebrates the beginning of a new year for
trees. Early blooming trees in Israel will wake from their winter
sleep and begin their new growth cycle. It seems a little hard to
understand for me in the Northeast of the United States where my
trees are still covered in icicles but I guess the weather in Israel
is a little different.
National Fig Newton Day –
Created by Charlie Roser, a cookie maker from Ohio, who sold his
creation to Kennedy Biscuit Works, which later became Nabisco. In
1891, James Henry Mitchell invented a funnel within a funnel device
which allowed the Newton's (as they were originally named after the
town of Newton nearby the factory) to become mass produced.
National Nothing Day-
Interestingly enough, this day was suggested in 1972 by Harold
Pullman Coffin, who clearly was tired of celebrating something every
day even back then when there weren't nearly as many things to
celebrate as there are today. So today is a day to not celebrate
anything. So tough luck if your birthday is today, we are not
celebrating it.
International Hot And Spicy Food Day
– Do you have an international dish that is hot and spicy? If so,
today is the day to make it for lunch or dinner.
Appreciate A Dragon Day –
Donita K. Paul created this day to promote the release of her book,
Dragonspell, in 2004. Read about some of your favorite
dragons today.
Get to Know Your Customers Day -
No business could survive without customers. So this is a day for
business owners to get to know their customers so they can serve them
better. Appreciate your customers for their desire to give you their
business. Yes, even the annoying ones. This day occurs three more
times this year, once each quarter.
Religious Freedom Day – Today
celebrates the adoption, by the Virginia General Assembly, of Thomas
Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom on this day in
1786. This became the basis for the First Amendment to the United
States Constitution guaranteeing our right to have the freedom to
practice any religion we choose.
Women in Blue Jeans Day – This
day celebrates the women of rural America who wear jeans and work
boots to work every day. There is a conference taking place today in
South Dakota for women in blue jeans to come together to relax, learn
and meet new people. It's too late to register for this year, but
they do it every year so keep it in mind for next year.
http://www.womeninbluejeans.org/
To
celebrate today you have to make a choice. If you decide to
celebrate National Nothing Day, you cannot celebrate anything else.
If you decide to celebrate the rest, you cannot celebrate National
Nothing Day. I'm sorry, that's just the way it has to be. For those
of you in a more celebratory spirit, wear blue jeans while you get to
know a little more about the customers who come into your stores
today. Feel free to ask them about their religious beliefs. Then
read a book about dragons while you eat some Fig Newtons. Finally,
eat some international hot and spicy food while you look at pictures
of trees in Israel.
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