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Enjoy Garden Meditation, Choc Custard, NPR, Skilled Trades, Different Colored Shoes, +Paranormal day [1]
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Date: 2023-05-03
Celebrate the Day at Hand—
Garden Meditation Day
National Garden Meditation Day is celebrated every year on May 3. It is the practice of taking time out from one’s hectic routine and going to a garden, picking a nice spot, and then meditating to relax your mind and body. Meditation gardens are exclusively designed to cut you off from the outside world and allow you to focus on your inner peace. They are natural spaces with natural triggers like gentle trickles of water, which help to calm your mind and help you focus. The day provides a reminder that people need a time out now and then to relax, be rejuvenated, and get in touch with nature. The concept of meditation is ancient. Evidence of its existence and practice date back to the 5th and 6th centuries in the South Asian cultures of Hinduism and Buddhism. In the 19th century, when Asian cultures spread worldwide, the concept of meditation was among the fastest to be adopted by people from western countries. With meditation came the idea of making spaces that are conducive to meditation. As a result, people started designing traditional landscapes like exotic gardens with ponds, wind chimes, and soft music. The essence of garden meditation comes from the Chinese and Japanese cultures, and their gardens have often been displayed in western countries. Asian texts on meditation are considered the most notable. nationaltoday.com/...
National Chocolate Custard Day
x National Chocolate Custard Day May 3rd, 2023
https://t.co/sPUPZELMWd pic.twitter.com/x4xTK9v3Jv — Steve Elmore (@StevenElmore) May 2, 2023
Bet you want one now. To celebrate, bake some, buy some, eat some chocolate custard.
Chocolate custards are made with chocolate and the usual custard mix of sugar, milk, and eggs, creating a mouthwatering symphony. Falling under the general classification of chocolate pudding, custards can be made into a harder texture with starch or baked into a cake. Historically, custards have been around since the Middle Ages and were baked as pastries that we now know as custard tarts. That was when the name custard came to be. It got its name from the French word ‘croustade,’ which originally referred to the crust of a tart. Custard got a mention in ‘The Forme of Cury,’ a large collection of Medieval English recipes compiled in the 14th century. nationaltoday.com/...
National Public Radio Day
It would be impossible to talk about the origin of National Public Radio Day without mentioning the technological invention itself. The radio we know began its evolution in the early 1900s, employed majorly for government and military activities. The first non-governmental radio broadcasting started in 1916. It was initiated by a station at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, called 9XM — presently known as WHA. However, these broadcasts were not voices or music but rather morse code signals. The incident of the first World War halted all non-governmental radio broadcasts in 1917... In 1967, President Johnson validated the Public Broadcasting Act, which induced the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (C.P.B.). The establishment of the C.P.B. helped validate the association between public radio stations leading to the formation of the National Public Radio (N.P.R.). An organization that has progressed since then and today is a prominent media organization that sources and controls informative and educational media content in the U.S. The origins of National Public Radio Day are unknown, but it was first observed in the 1990s — clearly influenced by the UNESCO-recognized World Radio Day in February. nationaltoday.com/...
National Skilled Trades Day - May 3, 2023 (1st Wednesday in May)
x National Skilled Trades Day 2023: Date, History, Facts about Working Life
https://t.co/xedU8ahtMt pic.twitter.com/35DCccCZLl — Eduvast (@eduvast) May 1, 2023
City Machine Technologies, Inc. created National Skilled Trades Day to bring attention to the skilled trades shortage in the United States. It is also a day to recognize essential employees who are skilled artisans. The skilled trades division is responsible for maintaining the integrity of the nation. These are the people we contact to repair our automobiles, install new toilets, build our residences, draw our blood, and ensure the health of our pets... In the healthcare, construction, manufacturing, and service industries, numerous businesses across the nation seek highly qualified individuals to cover a variety of positions. Mechanical, construction, medicinal, and cosmetic services are among the professions that can be learned by anyone. It is possible to become a chef or an electrician, a medical coder, or to assist people as an EMT, a nursing assistant, or a veterinary technician. Additionally, there are more available positions than there are workers. Therefore, National Skilled Trades Day is vital for both the present and the future. As baby boomers retire at a faster rate than employers can fill open positions, the demand for skilled workers increases. In light of the expensive cost of a college education, which renders it unaffordable for many individuals, a skilled trade is the best alternative. www.eduvast.com/...
National Two Different Colored Shoes Day
x Today is National Wear Two Different Colored Shoes Day. It’s unclear to me how that differentiates this day from all the other days. #NationalWearTwoDifferentColoredShoesDay #UnfairToQuadrupeds pic.twitter.com/OpN1c1x8AI — Sandra Boynton (@SandyBoynton) May 3, 2020
You’d be forgiven for thinking that National Two Different Colored Shoes Day must have been an event that was created by accident. Perhaps someone woke up tired and accidentally went to work in odd shoes and made the day up to cover their mistake? Or maybe the day was devised by shoe companies in an attempt to sell more brightly colored and crazy shoes? But the truth is that neither of those scenarios is true and the day was in fact created by an inspirational woman who was simply sick and tired of conforming to societal norms – what a woman! Dr. Arlene Kaiser created this quirky celebration to laud the diversity and differences that make humans great. Could you imagine how boring the world would be if everyone was homogenous? Just row after row of the same houses, the same clothes, the same people, the same religions and philosophies everywhere you go? Neither could Dr. Kaiser, at least not without cringing, and so as a small demonstration of her love of differences, she started wearing two different colored shoes two or three times a week while simply going about her normal day. www.daysoftheyear.com/...
Paranormal Day
Seeing is believing, or at least so the old adage goes. But is it? Because certainly it would be tempting to believe that things that can’t be seen, heard or touched do not actually exist. However, despite this, there have been thousands upon thousands of people who seem certain that they have, in fact, witnessed or even come into direct contact with things that “normal” science just can’t explain and that there is sometimes absolutely no evidence for… American writer Charles Fort is perhaps the best-known collector of paranormal anecdotes. Fort compiled at least 40,000 notes on unexplained paranormal experiences and he is often considered by many to be the father of modern paranormalism, which is the study of the paranormal. Reported events that he collected include teleportation (a term that Fort is actually credited with coining); poltergeist events; falls of frogs, fishes, and inorganic materials of an amazing range; crop circles; unaccountable noises and explosions; spontaneous combustions; levitation; unidentified flying objects (UFOs); mysterious appearances and disappearances and a myriad of other inexplicable occurrences that defy logic and even science. www.daysoftheyear.com/...
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