A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
The focus of the photo above is supposed to be the "green thing growing"-- the spiraling tendril of a vine on my hand, which was gifted to me last week as an object for nature study by Cordelia. It reminded me of the fascinating fibonacci sequence. Later that evening, I heard one of the most awe-inspiring lectures I've attended on cosmology, an explanation of how "the universe itself is composed like a grand symphony, harmonizing with the rhythms of mathematics" (see video linked above for this quote).
Today's Calendar Class is an example of my methodology and motto that "everything is important and interesting, because everything is connected, whether we can see it or not." One way or another, all the diverse subjects and stories below are interconnected, even if I can't fully comprehend it, let alone explain it! Each day I don't know what I will discover through researching for this blog or where the lesson will come from. For example, my 7-year-old returned home from scuola materna at lunch today and told me that they had sung a song about the world at school, from which I deduced that today is Earth Day! This, of course, led me down several rabbit trails in my research, which I am happy to share with you below. Unfortunately, the day doesn't provide enough hours for me to also create an explanatory video and this blog would be much too wordy if I were to attempt to comment and explain all the lessons and links below. Someday, God willing...
Liturgical: Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter; National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Mariners and People of the Sea (USA), promoted by Stella Maris 'Apostleship of the Sea'
"If then God gave them the same gift he gave to us when we came to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to be able to hinder God?" When they heard this, they stopped objecting and glorified God, saying, 'God has then granted life-giving repentance to the Gentiles too.'"
Sanctoral: Pope St. Soter, +175. Martyr, twelfth pope with a rather important legacy- he inaugurated Easter as an annual festival in Rome and ratified Christian marriage as requiring the blessing of a priest; Pope St. Caius +296. Related to the Emperor Diocletian, possibly the uncle of St. Susanna, 28th pope; Epipodius and Alexander, Lyon, France +2nd century. Martyrs and patron saints of bachelors
Human: 238 AD – Balbinus and Pupienus were proclaimed emperors of Rome by the Senate, after the suicide of Gordian I (emperor for just three weeks). However, the new emperors met with common dissatisfaction among the army, who considered Gordian’s grandson – Gordian III, who was only then 13 years old, to be the rightful successor. Only giving the boy the title Caesar calmed the situation. After three months of reign (99 days), the new emperors were murdered by the praetorians, dissatisfied with the increasing influence of the Senate.
1793- U.S. Proclamation of Neutrality issued by U.S. President George Washington that declared the nation neutral in the conflict between revolutionary France and Great Britain. It threatened legal proceedings against any American providing assistance to any country at war.
Natural: Earth Day 2024; A beautiful, brief video on our planet that makes me grateful to be an Earthling!
Quote:
The “green things growing” whisper me
Of many an earth-old mystery.
–Eben Eugene Rexford (1848–1916)
Comentarios