Humble pie . . .
Monday, April 27, 2026. It's the Moon's day . . . Strong Westerlies are moving clouds around TulseyTown. Forecasts are for a sunny afternoon in the mid 80's. Winds are to move to Northerlies overnight bringing a cooler day tomorrow. Previews of Summer.
As easy as it is to sell your soul, it's next to impossible to buy it back. – Coop, in Your Friends and Neighbors, Apple TV series, Season 2, Episode 4: “The Bread of Addiction.”
Fear and Loathing in Trump's Washington. – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought.
The week ahead. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Virginia Giuffre's sad anniversary yesterday. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Today is the birthdate of Mary Wollstonecraft, She was born on this day in 1759, London, England.
Playwright August Wilson was born today in 1945 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
And, the author of the “Madeline” books, Ludwig Bemelmans, was born in 1898 Meran, Tyrol, Austria.
“In an old house in Paris, that was covered with vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. In two straight lines they broke their bread, and brushed their teeth, and went to bed. They smiled at the good, and frowned at the bad, and sometimes they were very sad. They left the house at half past nine, in two straight lines, in rain or shine . . . the smallest one was Madeline!” – Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline, Simon and Schuster.1939.
Passionate peace . . .
Sunday, April 26, 2026. It's Sol's day . . . Strong southerlies bring clouds, upper 70's and a 20% chance of a thunderstorm to TulseyTown and Green Country this afternoon. Almost a Summer forecast. Slight storm chance extends into the overnight.
Peace, in its most fundamental form, is the connection of one human spirit to another.
The great mystics of all traditions teach us that the spiritual life is not really about consolation; it is about annihilation. – Mirabai Starr, Exquisite Risk: John of the Cross and the Transformational Power of Captivity, substack 4.21.26
Today in 1607 the first permanent English settlers in North America landed at Cape Henry, Chesapeake Bay.
Yesterday in 1945 delegates from fifty nations met in San Francisco to establish a permanent forum for international cooperation: the United Nations. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Carol Burnett is 93 today. born in 1933, San Antonio, Texas.
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was born on this date in 1889, Vienna, Austria.
The ornithologist and artist John James Audubon was born today in 1785 Les Cayes in what is now Haiti.
Ma Rainey was born in 1886 Columbus, Georgia. Known as the “mother of the blues” she is recognized as the first great professional blues vocalist
On this day in 1954 Kurosawa Akira's Seven Samurai was released in Japan. It is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential films ever made.
I’ll deal with Trump tomorrow.
… my continuing passion… to part the curtain, that invisible shadow that falls between people, the veil of indifference to each other’s presence, each other’s wonder, each other’s human plight. – Eudora Welty
Flying with Uncle Wiggily . . .
Saturday, April 25, 2026. It's the Satyr's day . . . Strong thunderstorms are in the forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown, likely this afternoon, extending into the evening and ending around midnight.
To plant a garden, to create a wetland—these seem like small acts in the face of our world of concrete, our obsession with never-ending economic growth. – Ragan Sutterfield, “Hospitality on Our Earth Home,” Meditations, at The Center for Action and Meditation, 4.24.26
Lots of birthday reminders in today’s mailbox —
U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser is 87 today. He was born in 1939 Ames, Iowa.
It's also the birthday of Al Pacino who is 86 today. The multi-laureate-awarded actor was born in 1940, New York City.
And, novelist Padgett Powell turns 74, born in 1952 Gainesville, Florida.
Edward R. Murrow was born on this day in 1908, Greensboro, North Carolina. He was the most influential and esteemed figure in American broadcast journalism during its formative years.
It’s the birthdate of singer Ella Fitzgerald. She was born in 1917, Newport News, Virginia.
The author of the Uncle Wiggily stories, Howard R. Garis, was born in Binghamton, New York (1873). By the time he retired, he had written more than 10,000 stories about the rabbit and his silk top hat.
In 1959, one of the largest civil engineering feats ever undertaken, the St. Lawrence Seaway, officially opened, linking the Atlantic Ocean with the Great Lakes.
On this day in 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope was placed in orbit by the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery, changing the course of modern astronomy.
Flying at Night
Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations.
Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies
like a snowflake falling on water. Below us,
some farmer, feeling the chill of that distant death,
snaps on his yard light, drawing his sheds and barn
back into the little system of his care.
All night, the cities, like shimmering novas,
tug with bright streets at lonely lights like
his.
– Ted Kooser, From Flying at Night: Poems 1965-1985, University of Pittsburgh Press. 1980.