Your service description https://sca.salemsattic.com/lwblog/summary.php lifetype-1.2.13-dev <p>Having never personally gotten over the Uniform Monday Holiday atrocity that changed our holiday calendar back in 1971, I am very pleased that this year I can wish you all a very</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large; font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;, sans-serif; color: #339966;">Happy Columbus Day!</span></p> <p>on the "correct" day of October 12^th.</p> <p>I still haven't gotten over the transition from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian, nor the use of CE and BCE instead of AD and&nbsp;BC, nor the movement that changed "Good Christian Men, Rejoice" into "Good Christian Friends, Rejoice." None of you will be surprised at my annoyance with celebrating Columbus Day on a day that honors not the landing of Christopher Columbus in the Americas but Americans' desire to have a long weekend.</p> <p>But this year they are one and the same, and if Columbus had not made that historic landing, there's a good chance I wouldn't be here. I consider that worth a celbration!</p> https://sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/archives/2026/10/12/happy-coincidence-day https://sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/archives/2026/10/12/happy-coincidence-day https://sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/archives/2026/10/12/happy-coincidence-day sursumcorda Random Musings Lift Up Your Hearts!