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A CELEBRATION OF THE DAY AFTER
Happy December 26th!
Like Christmas, it’s a day filled with fun and joy and laughter
But one that has the disadvantage…of arriving one day after.
Yes, I’m afraid December 26, in the annals of history, is fated to remain unreckoned…
Doomed to stand in relative obscurity with it’s neighbor…January 2nd.
I think it’s time we celebrate all those days…whose only crime is showing up one day late
who are destined to travel down the road of history…
24 hours away from being great.
Do you know the name of the first man on the moon?
Of course…everybody does?
But do you remember the second…
Ed Aldrin…his family called him Buzz.
Buzz Aldrin… the second man to emerge from the Lunar Module….
his history forever destined to be blurred…
Just like the groundhog who quietly emerges from his burrow…not on the 2nd…
but February 3rd
Mt. Everest is the tallest mountain in the world but the second is almost as high…
Yet K2 is only an afterthought…kind of like the 5th day of July.
We remember Snow White as the first movie Disney brought to the silver screen…
But the second one…Pinocchio…must take it’s place next to the unfortunate March 18.
Everyone knows Amelia Earhart, her story is one of courage, strength and devotion.
She was the first female pilot to fly by herself…across the Atlantic Ocean.
The second was Geraldine Mock, and at her even more accolades were hurled
for she kept going after crossing the Atlantic…and flew around the world!
Isn’t it funny how life works, for no one could have foreseen
That Geraldine would be a footnote in history…just like the day following Halloween.
But such is the way the calendar unfolds, be it September, October or December
Some days, like people, are destined for greatness, while other we hardly remember.
I think it’s time we change all that…and give these days their due
For I believe ‘days after’ deserve a place in history too.
So hold your chin up all you ‘days after'…you have nothing to lament or fear…
After all you could be the day after February 28th…
and show up…only every four years.
