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The Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople, today in 1204
I am including this date, this event, because the broad subject is interesting, and that war between the three faiths, over Jerusalem but over more than just Jerusalem, is the active daily tale of all our lives, multi-dimensionally, today. But why this specific? On what date did the Third Crusade, or the Second, the First - was there a Fifth? - begin, end, sack, retreat? And did they actually do anything else but sack? I am struggling to determine how, and why, let alone where, or when, to place my focus. So there is the gap between the personal and the universal. So there is a need for bridges.
And between the personal and the universal inside the event as well.
Today, for example, in 1961: a spaceship was launched, which took the very first human ever out of Earth's atmosphere. A momentous occasion for the human race, of universal significance. The start of an ongoing catastrophe for the rest of the cosmos.
And does it matter that the spaceship was named Vostok 1, that it happened to be launched out of the USSR, that the human happened to be male, rather than female, that he was named Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin?
But yes the name does matter, sometimes. Today in 1988, for example, when the beloved country of South Africa cried for the death of one of its greatest writers, Alan Paton.
And even more so with this, one of the dates, one of the events, that... but the full tale is told on his death-date, which is June 28, so for the moment I shall simply note that Terry Fox set out on his extraordinary walk, the ultimate exemplar of the truly heroic Immaculate Failure, today in 1980. The angel of Penuel didn't even bother to go on wrestling till the dawn, but stood aside, pronounced a blessing, and joined the walk as a sponsoring supporter.
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