On this day, we remember the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1582, replacing the Julian calendar. On this day in 1932, Gladys Aylward left for China and founded The Inn of the Eight Happinesses. The reading is "The Parable…

On this day, we remember two poets along with a reading from each: e.e. Cummings, born in 1894, and his poem, "I Thank You, God," and Richard Wilbur, who died in 2017, and his poem, "A Lamp is Lighted."