It's still Our Town . . .

Thursday, April 17, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . and another windy one is in the forecasts for TulseTown today. By afternoon, strong Southerlies may gust to 40 mph amid bringing a mix of clouds with otherwise sunny skies and upper 80's . The weatherfeather indicates a wet weekend upcoming.

In the mailbox this morning . . .

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self. – Mr. Rogers.

Building an artificial scientist isn't far away.

In the Abrego Garcia case against the Trump administration, the record reflects that any party other than the government would already be in contempt proceedings, if not the U.S. Marshal’s lockup. It's a complex proceeding, but with important implications for every person in the U.S. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, 4.16.25

With the persistence of a toddler who shuts his eyes and pretends something doesn’t exist, Trump wishes the Constitution and the rule of law out of existence, with the complicity of people around him who are willing to parse the law into nonsense in his service. Lawyers have more tools to resist than most people, so when they don’t, that’s bad news for all of us. But some of them are resisting. – also from the prolific Joyce Vance in another post on 4.16.25's Civil Discourse.

We have a deranged president. Republicans elected him and they need to find a home for him. Assisted living. Florida. A big patio looking at the Gulf of America. Surrounded by razor ribbon. – after Garrison Keillor.

And, Thornton Wilder was born on this day in 1897 Madison, Wisconsin.

Instructions On Not Giving Up

It’s the greening of the trees
that really gets to me

[…]

Patient, plodding, a green skin
growing over whatever winter did to us, a return
to the strange idea of continuous living despite

[...]

Fine then,
I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all.

– Ada Limón, from The Carrying, Milkweed Editions, 2018. Birthday March 28, 1976.