Only one way to start today:

OK. With that obvious beginning out of the way…
Here’s the “5 Things You Need to Know Now” list published by The Week. It’s a good, quick, balanced overview of the big stories of the day.
Here’s the link to today’s “My Paper.li” to see all of the great stories there:
The Ed Tech Emergent Daily, Monday, May 4th
https://paper.li/e-1584814795#/ You can bookmark this link!
Over at the National Day Calendar, besides

Foodwise, it’s National Candied Orange Peel Day.
It’s Bird Day. And while you’re out looking at/for birds go ahead and note your conditions on:

On a far more serious note, it’s:

Finally, there’s this invitation for today:

It it about a “new beginning” today or a “new hope?”