THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

BIRTHDAYS:

1588 — Nicholas Lanier, composer. No more shall meads (Love’s Constancy)

1645 Romeyn de Hooghe, painter

1659 Henry Purcell, composer. Rondeau from Abdelazer (Z570), and Dido’s Lament (Dido and Aeneas), and The Golden Sonata, and The Fairy Queen “Now the night is chased away”, and Chaconne (The Fairy Queen)

1941 Stephen Jay Gould, scientist and writer

MISCELLANEOUS:

I WAS THRILLED BY THE ORIGINAL SERIES. International Space Station astronaut gives out of this world tribute to honor Star Trek’s 60th anniversary