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BIPOC: (noun) an acronym for Black, Indigenous, and People Of Colour; everybody who is not white. Whereas over 70% of the United States is white, 80% of the world is BIPOC.

The Almost Daily

April 9 is National Chicken Little Awareness Day. The story of Chicken Little goes way back. It was first published in 1823 by a Danish guy named Just Matus Theel. 17 years later, in 1840, John Greene Chandler published the story in America. In 1943, Disney did a version of the famous story, and then again in 2005. Along the way there have been many versions under many names, but they all are the same – some small critter thinks the sky is falling and runs out to warn the rest of the world. Pretty much, it’s a warning against mass hysteria.

Why today is National Chicken Little Awareness Day... I haven’t a clue. Just the same, today we are supposed to focus on those things that make us over-react, and not let fear dictate our actions. It’s to make us avoid jumping to conclusions unless we know for sure that the sky really is falling. Yeah, sure. Chicken Little was wrong. But what if she hadn’t been? What if the sky really was falling? Would it have mattered? I mean, if the sky is falling in, what are you going to do other than sit outside in your lawn chair and watch? By the way, International Panic Day is on June 18. It’s supposed to make people aware of panic disorders, but it doesn’t have to be.

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Finding Paradise

Three good friends died and went to heaven,

and when they stepped through the gates,

the youngest of the three,

in awe and amazement, said,

“Damn!”

And just like that he was gone.

Upon seeing his young friend vanish,

the middle of the three exclaimed,

“Shit!”

And he, too, was gone.

Finding himself all alone,

the oldest and the wisest of the three proclaimed,

“The hell with this!”

And that is how the three

came to be together again.

And it may have been heaven,

or it may have been hell,

but none of the three cared.

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