EINSTEIN CALENDAR (2025-10)

In honor of Albert Einstein’s birthday yesterday, I thought I’d share some of the artwork from our family calendar from 1994. Yes, I still have our 1994 calendar, for two reasons:

1. It serves as a simple journal of what was happening in our household thirty+ years ago. 

2. I thought, and still think, the quotes from Einstein represent some of  our own basic beliefs.

There’s also the fact that the photos of the man himself are fabulous. 

In the olden days, before we all carried little computers in our pockets, we had to resort to pen and paper to keep us on track. In those days I also used a rudimentary palm pilot for the most important things I had to remember. I’m using the word palm in literal terms, with messages written pen to flesh. I have a stack of wall calendars that remind me how many activities we drove our kids to, how many PTA and Songwriter meetings, and how many singing engagements I had at such a ridiculously busy time of my life. Some years the dates were filled with studio sessions. Those were the years I was recording albums. Likely no one but me would find such a rush of memory in these physical calendars.

Scanning the pages of this year in our lives, I am struck by how poignant these words of Albert Einstein are for our current times. The political and governmental tsunami that has come upon us here in America has me and those I love stunned. The leadership of our country has nurtured a spirit of divisiveness rather than unity, a vibrating undercurrent of fear, and an unravelling of the chords that have woven the fabric of our country with the rest of the world. We’ve set money above morals and most disheartening to me is how people of good conscience celebrate our sword wielding leadership for their haphazard methods of tearing down. I see history reliving itself. Soon we will have sold ourselves for a mess of pottage.

For his 70th birthday, Einstein hosted refugee children
orphaned in the concentration camps of WWII.