On This Day: March 15th … Strange Holidays
Buzzards Day
Dumbstruck Day
Everything You Think Is Wrong Day
Napping Day
Ides Of March
National Shoe The World Day
National Pears Helene Day
Oh my goodness, so many good ones to get to, I don’t know where to start. But so you know, Pears Helene is a French dessert made with poached pears in a sugary syrup, ice-cream, and chocolate sauce. If you look online, you’ll see off shoots of the recipe.
And of course, supposedly, Caesar said to Brutus, “Et tu, Brute.” Then died from multiple stab wounds. This is what Shakespeare has Caesar say in the Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Caesar never said those words. As with most writing, fable, fiction, and the like is oft times more enjoyable than the truth. I suspect his last words may have been, "You have got to be kidding me!"
Normally I do three but today, I shall do four and will try to make them short, well, maybe.
National Shoe The World Day
Each day, over 500 million children, teens, and adults do not have a pair of shoes to wear. Despite the terrain and the climate, they walk barefoot everywhere. Their daily struggle is one we cannot begin to imagine. Living daily without protection on your feet can lead to a lifetime of problems including pain, injury, cuts, sores, infections, parasites. Schools and businesses ban students and customers without shoes. We attach stigmas to people who do not have proper footwear, too. Life without footwear also affects their health, education, and financial well-being. One issue leads to another, creating a never-ending cycle.
There are a few who are fortunate enough to have one pair of shoes even though they are much too big for them. This way, their shoes will last for many years as they grow, and they are only allowed to be worn for special occasions. In other cases, they may have one pair of shoes that are too small and tight for them (they will make them work) but to have a pair at all is a luxury.
Donald Zsemonadi and the United Indigenous People in Fontana, California inspired National Shoe the World Day in March of 2014.
If you want to get involved or learn more: https://soles4souls.org/
Buzzards Day
A buzzard is also known as a Turkey Vulture, or simply called a Vulture. Buzzards are scavengers. They eat road kill or carrion. By definition, they eat the dead and putrefying meat of animals. Aren't you glad to know that we're celebrating buzzards today?
How on earth did we ever get to the point of having Buzzard's Day? Walter Nawalaniec, a Cleveland, Ohio patrolman and bird watcher, tracked the spring migration of returning turkey vultures to the Cleveland area each year. He told local reporter Robert Bordner and historian Eunice Morton that he had observed the buzzards had returned to the area exactly on March 15 for the past six years. History has since proven that Buzzards return to the Cleveland, Ohio area on March 15 most years.
Watching the buzzards return each year became an annual event in the Cleveland area.
Along the way, serving and eating pancakes and sausage became part of the tradition for this day.
The Migratory Bird Act of 1918 protects buzzards. Turkey vultures perform an important role in the eco-system, cleaning the environment of dead animals.
I suppose if people call you an "old buzzard", then this day is for you, too.
"I've exercised with women so thin,
that buzzards follow them to their car."--Erma Bombeck
Everything You Think Is Wrong Day
As a heads up, tomorrow will also have Everything You Think Is Right Day. It’s only fair that right and wrong have their place.
It's not just in your thinking, that things are going wrong. Things are indeed going wrong, literally. Everything you see or hear appears to be all wrong. It’s frustrating. Have you ever had a day like that, a day when nothing was going right? Yeah, me too.
Well, today is a special day in recognition that everyone has a bad day once in a while. It can even happen to you. We just hope you don't think it happens all the time.
If you're thinking everything is wrong today, just wait 24 hours. Tomorrow everything will be just right. All those things that go wrong today, will magically correct themselves at the stroke of midnight. Everything is uphill from there.
People say 60 is the new 40. The cop who pulled me over didn't agree. (Unknown)
Dumbstruck Day
It's no surprise that more and more people are dumbstruck on an increasingly frequent basis. The volumes of fake, false, and erroneous information being printed in the media, and especially in social media, makes it all but impossible to sort out the truth from the lies. Therefore, we all have the right to be hopelessly dumbstruck.
Dumbstruck Day is a day to be totally dumbstruck over the things you see, hear, and read. You may easily be dumbstruck to read that someone created this day. Some people are dumbstruck on a regular basis, day in and day out. The events in their lives and the world around them are overwhelming. Fortunately, that's not you, at least I hope not.
However, everyone has the right to be dumbstruck once in a while. Today, you can be dumbstruck like the rest of us without guilt or embarrassment.
And on another note (sort of), after reading all this, it may be a good time to take a nap.
If I had to rate the solar system, I'd give it one star. (Unknown)
More strange holidays are coming!