Ahh, November10. My birthday, Neil Gaiman's birthday same day same year, he born just a few hours ahead of me, my astro bro. Then, fifteen years later the same day came "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" when "the witch of November" comes, as it says in Gordon Lightfoot's song, as is said by the lake locals here--it is part of our folklore. I am a Great Lakes Girl (I mean 'Girl' with all due respect-- I was BORN ON the Great Lakes AND GREW UP here and stayed my whole life here). The ship was on its way along the Great Lakes to Cleveland, where I was born, that fateful day, which was on my 15th birthday. And not the same year of course but my and the Marine Corps birthday are on the same day, Nov. 10. Very good day to be born, at18 degrees Scorpio if you know deep-dive (an overused phrase I can barely stand by now!) astrology and not just popular astrology. Here's that witchy song, link below.
https://youtu.be/hgI8bta-7aw?si=-hZv6WATLlDUBQZs
My heart goes out to all those on the ship that went down. There is a sea captain who lives on the lake, who some of my friends know. who was on the Edmund Fitgerald many tmes before it ever sank I hear he tells great lake and sea sotries. I hope to hear some someday. When I do I will see if he will give me permission to tell you some, my readers.
. I was also on the HMS Bounty one day not long before it sank in a hurricane in the Atlantic one year and still have pics of me on it.
I have posted and written about both these shiupwrecks before on Facebook and other places. I tend to post or write something about it every year on my birthday. I can't seem to find on YouTube anymore the original video I used to post with the actual news footage in it that was not blurry in spots like this video is. Also I liked how at the end of the other one it showed the faces and brief writeups about each person on the ship that went down with it.
Noit everything about my birthday is gloomy but this does always give me a somber note to think about befoe my birthday festivities renew my celebration of life.
And again,, Happy Birthday to one of my astrological Water Sign Scorpio soul mates Neil Gaiman. I admire his writings, his books, his storytelling.