Almost human . . .

Friday, March 27, 2026. It's Freya's (Frigg's) day . . . Cloudy, strong gusty Northerlies may bring a stray thunderstorm to Green country today. Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate a chilly afternoon in the upper 50's.

When “purpose” gets reduced to “passion,” “job title,” or “grand destiny,” it stops being valuable, and starts becoming unreachable. There’s no deadline for becoming who you are.

The inner child, with the inclination for loving-kindness, lives on within each of us.

The Kennedy Center is giving Bill Maher the Mark Twain Prize in a ceremony on June 28. Notified of the award to come, Maher remarked ““I’d just like to say that it is indeed humbling to get anything named for a man who’s been thrown out of as many school libraries as Mark Twain.”

The bedfellows: Wealth and politics. – Robert Reich, A Deeper Logic. 3.26.26

Quentin Tarantino is 62 today. The multi-laureate film writer, director, and producer was born in 1963, Knoxville, Tennessee.

Mariah Carey is 57. The five-octave popular singer was born today in 1969, Huntington, New York.

Julia Alvarez turns 76 today. The poet, novelist, essayist was born in 1950 New York City.

And, Pulitzer Prize poet Louis Simpson was born on this day in 1923 Kingston, Jamaica.

American Poetry

Whatever it is, it must have

A stomach that can digest

Rubber, coal, uranium, moons, poems.

Like the shark it contains a shoe.

It must swim for miles through the desert

Uttering cries that are almost human.

– Lous Simpson, “American Poetry” in The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001. BOA Editions, Ltd. 2003.