May 16 - The Maid of Orleans was a light peace

 Joan of Arc was probably one of the first 'female warrior prophets' people know of.  She claimed to have had a vision from God to drive out the English.

Ultimately, she was captured and put on trial for heresy (I mean, a woman wearing men's armour and hearing angels and saints?).  She was put to death by burning at the stake in May 30th 1431 but later found innocent just a mere 25 years too late.

On this day in 1920 she was canonized as a saint.

Speaking of saints and peacely things, today is International Day of Living Together in Peace, which may have come in handy on that time of Joan d'Arc.

It's also International Day of Light, so when it's peaceful, it can be sunny too!

March 17 - Irish Light

 This is an easy day to pick something special, especially for those of us who play the pipes.  Interesting that it's a day where they want us to play our Scottish bagpipes for an Irish day.

St. Patrick's Day comes from the fact that today was supposed to be the day that St. Patrick was either supposed to have given a sermon about the shamrock being like the trinity or the day he was captured by pirates and taken to Ireland.

It's also the day that in 1905 Albert Einstein published his theory on the "Quantum Theory of Light".

The idea was that when needed, light behaves like a particle, and at other times it behaves like a wave