World Rat Day

Friday, April 4, 2025 is World Rat Day.

From the incident described on
https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/rat.html ,

I am hoping for good returns for the world today (it is now
already early April 4 here in Newfoundland). But then
again, I seem to find almost every day auspicious in
some way, and have had no luck with my Sisyphean
attempts so far.

From that page, which describes an incident early in 1996:

Early in the Chinese year, in the Year of the Rat, when I, my sister Anne and 
her two daughters were travelling west from St. John's to Lakeview along the 
Conception Bay Highway, a large rat raced Olympic fashion rapidly to the edge 
of the road and made a flying leap to hit our car. We backed up to find it 
was dead and I dragged it off the road, and later thought that it had 
committed self-sacrifice and would be reincarnated in higher form after 
hitting the "car of ma."

-- 
https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
"This could be the final breath; This is life and death;
This is hard rock and water; Out here between wind and flame;
Between tears and elation; Lies a secret nation" (Ron Hynes)