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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Aug 16, 2023, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.2A8C8A1C0050B0187000024B738F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > Today (August 16, 2023) is True Love Forever Day.   
   >   
   > It is also National Rum Day. and the national rum of Newfoundland   
   > is Screech, a black rum distilled in Jamaica (it used to be traded   
   > for salt fish) and used in Newfoundland in Screech-In ceremonies.   
   >   
   > Since it is black I find it appropriate that it is associated with   
   > today’s new/dark moon, and perhaps there can be a Screech-in   
   > into a new age.   
   >   
   > Ha, as usual I am grasping at straws.   
      
   Now it is early August 17, which is   
   National Black Cat Appreciation Day   
   and the black cat could also represent dark moon.   
      
   --   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   "This could be the final breath; This is life and death;   
   This is hard rock and water; Out here between wind and flame;   
   Between tears and elation; Lies a secret nation" (Ron Hynes)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)