THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused.”

― Michael Crichton

BIRTHDAYS:

1585 Heinrich Schütz, German Baroque composer and organist. Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, and Lobe den Herren, meine Seele SWV 39

1823 Mary Ann Shadd Cary, American-Canadian writer, publisher, and anti-slavery campaigner

1830 Harriet Hosmer, American neoclassical sculptor

1835 Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (Samson et Dalila; Organ Symphony). Danse Macabre, and Le Carnaval des animaux

1840 — Simeon Solomon, English Pre-Raphaelite painter

MISCELLANEOUS:

CLEANUP ON AISLE 3. A dead Soviet satellite just broke apart in orbit (again). Experts say it’s part of ‘a worrying trend’