{"id":8159,"date":"2015-04-20T16:53:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T16:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=8159"},"modified":"2015-04-20T17:37:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T17:37:23","slug":"april-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2015\/04\/april-20\/","title":{"rendered":"April 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I guess I could wish you happy April 20<\/strong>; I don’t know though. It is an inauspicious date.<\/p>\n

I saw “Real Time with Bill Mahe<\/strong>r” the other day — he’s starting a movement to make 4\/20<\/strong> a federal holiday to celebrate pot, and I’ve got to admit his spoof “Twas the Night Before 4\/20”<\/strong><\/em> was pretty clever (especially for a bunch of stoners–haha). You can see it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But it was his explanation of the origins of 4\/20 that I noticed because it differed from what I had heard. Bill referred to a bunch of high school kids in Cali who met at 4:20 after class to smoke. I had always heard it was the code for a police call on drug possession. Not so says Snopes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

How lucky we are to have Wikipedia<\/a> <\/strong>and Snopes<\/a><\/strong> and The <\/strong><\/a>Huffington Post<\/a> <\/a><\/strong><\/em>to consult; the answers are at our fingertips. \u00a0I don’t feel so old and out of it when I can plug in a phrase all the kids are using and learn what it means.<\/p>\n

April 20 also marks the date of the Columbine school shooting — it has been 16 years. “School shooting” is part of our vocabulary now and children practice for such events like we had fire drills. We’re adapting to mass shootings being a part of our modern lives. Sigh.<\/p>\n

On this date \u00a0in 1889 Adolph Hitler was born, a man who cannot be condemned enough. Evil. I think about evil when I think of him. I like to think at our core we are good, but when I think of Hitler, I realize how evil is here among us. \u00a0I sometimes think of the chilling poem by Witslawa Szymborska <\/strong>titled\u00a0\u00a0“Hitler’s First Photograph.”<\/a> <\/strong>The link is to the “Constant Reader”<\/strong> group on Goodreads<\/a>, <\/strong>a great site \u00a0devoted to books and authors.<\/p>\n

So that’s why I hesitate to say “Happy 4\/20.” \u00a0Instead I’ll wish you some good<\/strong> energy this Monday and leave it at that.<\/p>\n

Peace, love, and solace<\/strong><\/p>\n

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April's mellow sherbet sundown \u00a9 Ellen Wade Beals, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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