It's still Christmas over here...
2021.02.23
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Black History Month
On this day in…
1868, W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois, sociologist, historian, educator, and sociopolitical activist is born. He argued for immediate racial equality for African-Americans. His emergence as an African-American leader paralleled the rise of Jim Crow laws of the South and the Progressive Era.
1965, Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president, the highest elective office held by a Black woman in a major American city.
1979, Frank E. Peterson Jr. named the first Black general in the Marine Corps.
1995, Bass Singer Melvin Franklin of The Temptations died of complications following a brain seizure in Los Angeles. He was 53.
Someone asked me last night if my tree was still up, and the answer, of course, is yes. I mean it’s only February after all. Part of me thinks I should just leave it up all year, but I feel like it might lose some of its magic if I did that. Part of the joy of the tree is watching it all come together, putting the ornaments in just the right place, turning the lights on for the first time, and looking at the memories hanging from every branch. Leaving it up all year seems easy but I’m not going to do it. The tree will be up for another couple of weeks and then it will be boxed away for a few months before we start it all again.
Any of you still have your tree up?
We actually just took down our tree a week ago - the longest, by far, I've ever left it up. This was also the first year I've ever put it up before Black Friday. The main reason it was up so long was lack of time, but also because I needed the lights so much