Sleep dancing the blues. . .
Saturday, April 26, 2025.
It's the Satyr's day in TulseyTown. A rainy day is in the forecasts. Easterlies are to bring heavy thunderstorms this afternoon with upper 60's
Talking about The Way is like naming dance after architects. That said, here’s what spilled from the mailbox this morning.
Today in 1607, settlers arrived at the first permanent English settlement in North America. The Jamestown Colony was established near present-day Williamsburg, Virginia.
Yesterday poet Ted Kooser turned 86 years young. The U.S. Poet Laureate was born in 1939 Ames, Iowa.
Today is the birthdate of “the mother of the blues.” Ma Rainey was born in 1886 Columbus, Georgia.
Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted was born on this date in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1822
Arguably the most influential and important philosopher of the 20th century, Ludwig Wittgenstein was born today in 1889 Vienna
The Watercourse looks to be having its Way with Trump. He appears more and more to be in over his head. Heather Cox Ricardson summarized the week in Letters From An American.
[A] whole day can unfold in an indistinct blur … It takes practice if we want to really taste what is happening to us. – Holly Wren Spaulding.
We are asleep. Our Life is a dream.
But we wake up sometimes, just enough
to know that we are dreaming.
– Wittgenstein
Consciousness and Pavarotti . . .
Friday, April 25, 2025. It's Freya's day . . . and the weatherfeather indicates easy Southerlies bringing cloud cover and upper 70's to TulseyTown today. Rain chances increase slightly today, rising tonight and definitely tomorrow.
Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. – Hobbes [as in Calvin and Hobbes}
‘If a lion could talk, we wouldn’t be able to understand it.’ – Ludwig Wittgenstein, author of Philosophical Investigations.
As the superintelligences begin to set and execute their own research agendas, the work they do would therefore become unintelligible for us because we would lack the internal perspective necessary to understand their science. From our view, their research would be a science created for theoretical-aims-we-know-not-what, with purposes-we-know-not-what, to be interpreted in ways-we-know-not-what. – Brandon Boesch, in Aeon, 4.24.25.
We are witnessing just the beginning of massive, unimaginable suffering that's going to happen over the next year as America betrays its values and abandons the most vulnerable people in the world. – Heather Digby Parton
I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, that once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. – James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, Vintage Press, 1992.
— Dates —
Edward R. Murrow The most influential and esteemed figure in American broadcast journalism during its formative years was born in 1908, Polecat Creek, near Greensboro, North Carolina.
Al Pacino turns 85 today. The multi-award laureate film and stage actor was born in 1940, New York City.
Thirty-five years ago today the crew of the space shuttle Discovery placed the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit about 370 miles above Earth.
And, Puccini’s twelfth and final opera, Turandot premiered posthumously 99 years ago at Milan’s storied La Scala opera house and was conducted by Puccini’s friend (and occasional nemesis!) Arturo Toscanini.
I can't say I know much about consciousness. All I know is that morning bird song and Pavarotti speak to me.
— Luciano Pavarotti, Zubin Mehta, the L.A. Philharmonic, and the L.A. Music Center Opera Chorus. 1994.
Poets rebel, a fever breaks . . .
Thursday, April 24, 2025, It's Thor's day . . . Moderate Southerlies bring a 50-50 chance for thunderstorms to TulseyTown late this afternoon. So, a cloudy, cool upper 70's day.
The mailbox was jam-packed this morning.
Trump's plan for Ukraine is a total sellout to Russia and would give Putin everything he's campaigned for since 2014. – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.
On this day in 1916 the “Easter Rising” began in Dublin. Also known as the “Poet's Rebellion” it had the aim of ending British rule and creating the Irish Republic. April 24th is the occasion of birthday celebrations for four major creatives.
It's the birth date of poet, novelist, literary critic Robert Penn Warren. The first U.S. poet laureate was born in 1905 Guthrie, Kentucky. He remains the only person to win the Pulitzer Prize in both fiction and poetry.
Shirley MacLaine turns 91. The Kennedy Center laureate and multiple Academy Award actress was born in 1934, Richmond Virginia.
Barbra Streisand is 83, born in 1942, Brooklyn, New York. Her list of awards is too long to post here, but among them: also a Kennedy Center laureate, as well as The Presidential Medal of Freedom, and multiple Tony, Grammy and Academy Awards.
Kelly Clarkson is 43. The multiple Emmy and Grammy laureate was born in 1982, Fort Worth,Texas.
Today is also the birth date of the painter Willem de Kooning. Among the leading exponents of Abstract Expressionism, he was born in 1904, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
The fever breaks. The spring finally arrives. I feel like what the cherry trees are doing outside. There is no time left for anything but love stories. – Sophie Strand, “The Good Catastrophe.” posted on Make Me Good Soil, 4.23.25