Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Summer Solstice

[1788 - U.S. Constitution ratified by New Hampshire, making it the law of the land]

[1903 - Al Hirschfeld, caricaturist, born in St. Louis, Missouri]

[1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, writer, born in Paris]

[1921 - Judy Holliday (Tuvim), actress, born in New York City]

[1945 - Enemy resistance in Okinawa ends with Japanese surrender]

[1947 - First postwar Mille Miglia begins in Brescia, Italy]

[1956 - Arthur Miller, playwright, defies House Committee on Un-American Activities, refuses to name suspected communists]

[1964 - Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, CORE civil rights workers, disappear in Neshoba County, Mississippi]

Out of Your Mind

Out of Body, Out of Mind.
Look down on one and into another.
If soul and body are separate,
Genius and insanity be joined at the hip.

William's Whimsical Words:

William has never had an out of body experience, but has definitely been out of his mind on occasion.

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