What makes a red letter or banner year? Years like 1968 pop to mind, and years wars start or end -- 1945 of course, continuing all the way back like that to beyond the mists of early calendar time. Today, 22 Thermidor / Fervidor, Revolutionary Year 219, known in the parlance of our day as August 9, 2011 and to some as Nagasaki Remembrance Day -- lest the world forget that day an atomic bomb was dropped on a (second) Japanese city filled mostly with civilians during a cataclysmic conflict in 1945 -- today we pull back and consider 2011 as another red letter year perhaps more along the lines of the 1968 upheavals. But who knows? There are several months left to go.
What have we learned this year? What has happened? The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster has got to take the radioactive cake; surely the Arab Spring / Arabic Rebellions roil the status quo; and, of course let's not forget climate change (mostly bad news) . . . But what else "big" has happened or will happen this year? In the words of one Detroiter: What else you got?
Today's Rune: Journey.
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Let's hope 2011 picks up and improves a bit before the end.
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