January 15, 2019
MORNING BRIEFING
Here are some things you may find interesting to know:
Almanac
In 1559 – The coronation of Elizabeth I as Queen of England is held in Westminster Abbey. She had succeeded Mary I the prior November and would reign for 44 years, a period known to history as the Elizabethan Era. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn.
In 1889 – The Coca-Cola Company – then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company after its founder – is incorporated. Today Coke products are served the world over, with us Earthlings consuming over 1.8 billion Coke products every day. The formula remains a closely guarded secret, though the story about only two executives each having access to half the formula appears to be false.
Your Hit Parade
#1 songs on this date in 1977:
Hot 100 – You Make Me Feel Like Dancing…Leo Sayer (only week)
Soul Chart – I Wish…Stevie Wonder (1st of five weeks)
Country Chart – You Never Miss a Real Good Thing (Till He Says Goodbye)…Crystal Gayle (only week)
Album Chart – Hotel California…The Eagles (1st of eight non-consecutive weeks)
– Chart data courtesy of Billboard.
Numbers Racket
10,619: the continuous number of days the US has been at war.
$21.941: the number of dollars, in trillions, of America’s national debt. – Source: usdebtclock.org
660: days until 2020 election.
Philosophy 101
…she was saved by the native shrewdness that goes hand in hand with personal ambition.
Ursula Curtiss
Letter of Intent
One of the nice things Mother Nature does for us is she gives us a knack for things that interest us. Our search for these things is seldom arduous or unrewarded. If we listen, our hearts will tell us where to go and our instincts will tell us how to get there. All we have to do is listen to them. When we do this we will discover the native shrewdness that goes hand in hand with ambition that Ms Curtiss writes about.
Now, be careful about ambition: blind lust for money or power doesn’t do anyone any good. Ambition directed at getting the most out of the talents we were born with, however, is always richly rewarded, however. It is life’s great prize and one of the few journeys us humans take that really matters.
Bearing that in mind, what are you ambitious for in 2019?
Have a good day, and many thanks for reading.
Kaitlyn