every day in 2016, write a sentence or a paragraph or a poem that appreciates
history 2 (see also entry for DoY 051)
why is it worth circling way back and appreciating history again? oh damn! because I appreciate it that much! oh gods yes! one of my favorite books from my second grade books, which I had started before I started formal school, was called _Beginning History_. (or so I remember.) and its author warned that this could become a lifelong activity. oh it did and has. long after I escaped the horror of "Run Dick, run", I have read about Hastings and Waterloo and Bosworth Field and Gettysburg and Appomatox, what we know about Brian Boru, how George Washington fought off the British, how John might have been considered an effective king except that he lost crucial battles, the dreadful losses at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest, how Bismarck forged Germany. On the other hand, I have not learned much about the Moorish occupation of Spain and Portugal. well, maybe soon. anyway, you can see, I have read broadly and shallowly about history in Europe and in the United States. and there's still so much to read about: all of South America, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Australia even, and oh my goodness the mother of all mysteries, Africa. history! such an embarrassment, and such a pleasure! yes, I appreciate it.
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