Ahh July! One of the two months tossed in by the Caesars Julius and Augustus rendering the clues to the position in the calendar by their names of September through December moot.
The month that added pages to calendars and is the reason February holds the short end of the day stick started in the hubris of a petty little tyrant. (Warning, Donober may be just around the corner.)
Still there are some good things that came out of July. Not only does July contain within its weeks National Hot Dog Day (on the undoubtedly soon to be more available July 4) it is in its entirety National Watermelon Month and National Ice Cream Month, perhaps not at the same time. Fun fact(?) or perhaps Sad fact, the Fourth of July was not declared a federal holiday until 1938.
Not only was it in July (the one in 1687 specifically) that Isaac Newton published Principia, that contains within its pages his laws of gravity and motion, it was also in July (the one in 2001) that the wildly popular sit-com “The Office” premiered (the British production). And it was on July 13, 1923 that some future real estate tycoon erected the famous HOLLYWOODLAND letters in Griffith Park on Mount Lee above Beachwood Canyon that you might be more familiar with as the Hollywood sign after the last four letters were taken down in 1949.
For the fans of vaccines, and other reasonably intelligent people, it was in July that the rabies vaccine was first given to a patient. Microbiologist Louis Pasteur administered the vaccine to a nine-year-old boy bitten by a rabid dog on July 6, 1885.
For those who think weird like me, July is the first month of the second half of the year. In yesterday’s Uplift we suggested July is a good time to reaffirm your New Years Resolution. Ours is to find something everyday that makes you start the day smiling inside and work on that until the smile defines you. Read more about it at Half Year Resolutions. It’s good. Trust me.
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Your capacity for finding fun and unique information astounds me. Personally, I’m finding it hard to believe the year is already half over–I’m not sure where it has gone. But I love your attitude about finding things to smile about each day. Our ability to choose our attitudes is one of the gifts God has given us. And the celebration of the half year is as good as reason as any to smile. Well done, Michael!
Thank you Dayle! I can’t leaves it’s July already either. Sometimes the days seems to drag but then all of a sudden half the year is good. It’s good to take the time to recognize how special each day is but sometimes we need bigger celebrations than it just turning into another day. Whatever makes you happy should work. A month long celebration of the watermelon may be one way. And I’m doing my best to have some ice cream each day this month.
The beginning of July slide by me this year. I picked *good* as my word of the year, so I’ll review my list of synonyms I made in January. I know *good* isn’t the most dynamic word, but gotta say it has helped me stay grounded.
That sounds like a positively acceptable mantra word to work you want through another excellent year.