On this day in history:

• It is Thanks-giving Day in Canada (on the 2nd Monday of October);

• Columbus Day in America (also the 2nd Monday of October), which marks the anniversary of the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer. The historical debate over the nature of his "discovery" I will stay well away from...

• Double-Ten Day in China, marking the beginning of the Xinai Revolution in 1911, which ended the the 4000 year-long reign of the monarchy;

• Sri Chinmoy wrote Because You Are A Born-Heart:

  Because you are a born-heart, My child,

  I tell you for sure,

  No, not even the greatest doubter

  Can blight you.

  Because you are a child-heart, My child,

  I tell you for sure,

  No, not even the worst possible rogue

  Can spoil you.

  Because you are a oneness-heart, My child,

  I tell you for sure,

  No, not even the most powerful

  Hostile force

  Can divide you.

  A born-heart, a child-heart

  And a oneness-heart

  Are unparalleled treasures

  Here on earth.

  - Sri Chinmoy, 10 October 1980

• AND I WAS BORN!!!