It’s another Monday, the start of another “work week,” as it is so often referred to. Identifying “work week” or “weekends” is non-existent in my personal world as the days, regardless of the grouping, are the same.

There is much I hope to complete today, but the body has other ideas. I will return to bed for a while with the hopes there will be more cooperation in a few hours.

On this day in 1860, Americans elected as their president,  Abraham Lincoln, whose victory led to the secession of Southern states and the long and bloody Civil War that lasted until 1865 and ended slavery in the U.S.  U.S. President Ronald Reagan won reelection in a landslide victory over Democratic candidate Walter F. Mondale in 1984. The second phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917 began (October 25, Old Style) as the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia. In 1888, Indiana Republican Benjamin Harrison was elected U.S. president by an electoral majority despite losing the popular vote by more than 90,000 to his Democratic opponent, Grover Cleveland. And in 1854, American bandmaster John Philip Sousa, who composed 136 military marches, was born.

Make it a great day!