Rare roast? Or Pork?
Friday, April 24, 2026. It's Freya's day . . . Moderate Northerlies, mid 70's, and lots of cloudiness are in the forecasts for TulseyTown today.
The flower is always the bud’s undoing. So, let go and bloom where you are.
Michael Tilson Thomas, the American conductor, composer and pianist. died on Wednesday at his home in San Francisco. His 25-year tenure as music director of the San Francisco Symphony became a model of collegial music-making, artistic adventurousness and community engagement. He was 81.
Barbra Streisand is 84 today. She was born in 1942, Brooklyn, New York.
Shirley MacLaine is 92 born April 24, 1934, Richmond, Virginia,
Mystery novelist Sue Grafton was born on this day in 1940 Louisville, Kentucky.
Novelist, poet, and critic Robert Penn Warren—who became the first poet laureate of the United States, was born on this day in 1905 Guthrie, Kentucky.
On this day in 1904, artist Willem de Kooning, one of the leading exponents of Abstract Expressionism, was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
It’s unknown just how roast-like this Saturday's White House Correspondents dinner will be. Trump is attending for the first time. Some say it looks like a power move on his part. It's difficult to imagine Trump volunteering to be roasted at all, let alone by the media. – Jillian Wilson, Huff Post, 4.23.26
EpiphanyBecause I cannot conceive the whole of creation,
judging the bits, pieces and parts with
these earth-bound eyes,
has become impossible.
That said – all these parts, pieces, and bits
somehow just now united in a new light
lifting a burden unknown before knowing
I was carrying.
– jab
Golden rule days . . .
Thursday, April 23, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . Strong, gusty Southerlies are in the forecasts for Green Country and Tulseytown. A cloudy day in the upper 70's with slight rain chances increasing to likely thunderstorms tonight.
Today in 1635, Boston Latin School, the first public school in the United States, was founded. It is still in existence.
Playwright and poet William Shakespeare was born on this day in 1594 Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
Yesterday was the birth date of the poet Louise Glück. Born in 1943 New York City, she was a U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize laureate among many other accolades. Her poetry often confronted many difficult human conditions within award winning lyricism. Her autobiography was published by the Nobel Prize committee.
In 1984 researchers reported they found the virus that causes AIDS; the infectious agent was later named HIV. Over the decades, relentless research has turned despair into hope, transforming HIV/AIDS from a fatal illness into a manageable chronic condition.
What's he sorry for? – Robert Reich, The Bigot Says He's Sorry, substack 4.23.26
Physicist Max Planck was born today in 1858 Kiel, Germany. He originated quantum theory.
The Academy Award and Cannes Palme d'Or filmmaker, documentarian, author, and political activist Michael Moore is 71 today, born in 1954, Flint, Michigan.
And its the birthdate of Roy Orbison The singer-songwriter-balladeer of loneliness and heartache with among the most operatic voices in all of rock music was born in 1936, Vernon, Texas.
Only the lonely have explored the depths of crying.
Ten Years Later
. . . one small thing
I’ve learned these years,
how to be alone,
and at the edge of aloneness
how to be found by the world.
– David Whyte, “Ten Years Later,” from The House of Belonging. Many Rivers Press. Revised edition, 2026.
The search for different pathways in the world is but the search for different forms of truth. And this would keep the truth from being reached. To search in this way is to assume you have an unmet need. Follow The Way. It is beneath your step in each and this instant.
A toast: To the grass . . .
Wednesday, April 22, 2026. It's Odin' day … strong Southerlies continue to maintain cloudy skies over Green Country and TulseyTown and an afternoon in the low 70's.
Today is EARTH DAY.
The modern and postmodern selves largely live in a world of their own construction and react for or against human-made ideas. While calling ourselves intelligent, we’ve lost touch with the natural world. – Fr. Richard Rohr, “Soul and the Natural World,” Meditations, from The Center for Action and Meditation.
Given the staggering technological power we have acquired, stewardship is humanity’s de facto relationship to earth at this point. To work, stewardship needs to be based on the non-anthropocentric assumption of fundamental kinship between human and non-human, an assumption that must exist before question and argument, shaping experience and action: A vision, as we have begun to see, of Paleolithic and ancient Chinese cultures. Only that will allow us to value earth and its individual life-forms in and of themselves, to value their own self-realization as we do our own. – David Hinton , Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction, Shambhala, 2022.
Mindful
Oh, good scholar, I say to myself / how can you help but grow wise / with such teachings as these –
the untrimmable light of the world / the ocean's shine / the prayers that are made of grass?
– Mary Oliver, “Mindful” in Why I Wake Up Early, Beacon Press, 2004.
There is an unmistakable feeling that the wheels are coming off the MAGA bus. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
A rather impressive group share their birth's today.
One of the world’s most influential philosophers, Immanuel Kant, was born in 1724, Königsberg, Prussia [now Kaliningrad, Russia].
Vladimir Lenin born in 1870, Simbirsk, Russia.
Robert Oppenheimer was born in 1904, New York City.
Jack Nicholson is 89 today. Among the foremost film actors, he was born in 1937, Neptune, New Jersey,
And, yesterday was Patty LuPone's 77th Birthday. Born in 1949, Northport, New York. Without a doubt, one of Stephen Sondiheim's favorate intepreters, toasting “The Ladies Who Lunch,” on The Late Show.