Daily Holidays - June 21

[Sherman A1]

National Peaches and 
Cream Day Annually celebrated on June 21, it is National Peaches ‘n’ Cream Day. Peaches ‘n’ Cream sound like a perfect way to start summer solstice. Actually, it sounds like the perfect way to end summer solstice as well!
(See National Daylight Appreciation Day for the meaning of summer solstice.)

Peaches ‘n’ Cream is a simple, traditional and delicious summertime dessert. http://nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-peaches-n-cream-day-june-21/

Father’s Day Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. Many countries celebrate it on the third Sunday of June, though it is also celebrated widely on other days by many other countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Father's_Day

National Daylight Appreciation Day National Daylight Appreciation Day is observed each year on June 21. This day recognizes summer solstice (the longest day of daylight in the northern hemisphere) and encourages people to celebrate the many benefits of the sun.

National Daylight Appreciation Day is also a day to learn more about the importance of daylighting. Daylighting is defined as lighting an indoor space with openings, such as windows and skylights, that will allow daylight into the home or building. Daylighting is chosen to save energy, to avoid hypothesized adverse health effects of over-illumination by artificial light and for aesthetics. Daylight factor is the ratio between the measured internal and external light levels of the amount of daylight that is received into an indoor space or room.

Installing fewer electric lights because daylight is present or dimming/switching electric lights automatically in response to the presence of daylight can reduce artificial lighting energy. This process is known as daylight harvesting.

Daylight has positive psychological effects; it can boost your mental health and help to lower depression as well as help with increased energy levels. The Vitamin D, that we naturally get from the sun, has many health benefits for us. http://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-daylight-appreciation-day-june-21/

World Humanist Day Celebrated on the day of the June solstice, World Humanist Day is a coming together of organisations and individuals which value science and rationalism over divinity and the supernatural.

Created during the 1980s by people affiliated to American Humanist Association, the day is regarded as the only holiday for free thought in the world. In recent years, it has grown rapidly and even received television coverage in some nations.

The way in which it is celebrated differs greatly from country to country, with some groups hosting parties and others favouring conferences and activism.

The main point of World Humanist Day is to try and make the world a better place by increasing the public’s knowledge of scientific methods in hope that it will dispel many age-old myths.

Well known supporters of World Humanist Day include the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, best-selling author Phillip Pullman, the philosopher AC Grayling and the comedian Tim Minchin. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/world-humanist-day/

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[betsuni]

1. Happy Birthday to Jean-Paul Sartre

From "Nausea":

"Everywhere, now, there are objects like this glass of beer on the table there. When I see it, I feel like saying, 'Enough.' I realize quite well that I have gone too far. I don't suppose you can 'take sides' with solitude. That doesn't mean I look under my bed before going to sleep, or think I see the door of my room open suddenly in the middle of the night. Still, somehow I am not at peace: I have been avoiding looking at this glass of beer for half an hour. I look above, below, right and left; but I don't want to see it. And I know very well that all these bachelors around me can be of no help: it is too late, I can no longer take refuge among them. They could come and tap me on the shoulder and say, 'Well, what's the matter with that glass of beer?' It's just like all the others. It's bevelled on the edges, has a handle, a little coat of arms with a spade on it and on the coat of arms is written, 'Spartenbrau,' I know all that, but I know there is something else. ... I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together."

[IDemo]

2. You left one out -

IDemo birthday.

[malthaussen]

3. Well, happy birthday

-- Mal

[IDemo]

4. Nice!

The scary thing is I'm old enough to remember watching the Three Stooges as a child.

[femmocrat]

7. Happy birthday, IDemo!

[IDemo]

9. Thank you, femmocrat

[malthaussen]

5. Today's reading:

Paul Oskar Kristeller, The Renaissance Philosophy of Man.

The interested will also find this a useful article: http://humanism.ws/the-editor/a-history-of-humanism-robert-grudin/

Note that "secular humanism" is not the same bird as "humanism."

-- Mal

[femmocrat]

6. Happy Father's Day to our DU dads!

[bigwillq]

8. Happy Father's Day to all the good dads out there.