Even ghosts can be literate . . .

Thursday, March 20, 2025. It's Thor's day … I share this birth date with The Spring Equinox and with the fabulous playwrite Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen, Grieg, and Sibelius contribute to my now life-long love affair with all things Scandinavian and the blended balance of the romantic with logic, reason and hard truths won in the silence between words.

No matter how frenzied you feel, no matter how shoved and strangled by the rush of events, you are standing in a single exquisite moment. – Kathleen Dean Moore, “We Are Held by What We Cannot See,” in Tricycle, July 3, 2022.

Just so you know . . .

Roman poet Ovid was born on this date in 43 B.C. in what is now Sulmo, Italy.

Albert Einstein published his Theory of General Relativity today In 1916.

And in 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was published.

Now that you know . . .

What happens when Trump ignores the courts? We're about to find out today.

Trump thrives the most when Americans aren’t well informed about what he’s doing. We’re in this together. Excellent video posted by Joyce Vance, at Civil Discourse.

State of the arts of technology and science on display: if you missed it – watch NASA astronauts return home from their extended stay aboard the International Space Station. And stay with the video after it ends, with a update on the latest robotics project with the combined resources of Nividia, Deep Mind, and Disney Research lab. It's enough to make a borderline Luddite tear up as they change their mind after it's been stretched open to the edges of possibility.

“… we’re all of us Ghosts … It’s not only what we have invited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs … There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. And then we are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.” – Henrik Ibsen, in Act 2 “Ghosts”.