High as an elephant's eye . . .
Tuesday, March 31, 2026. It's Tiw's day … forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown indicate another blustery-windy day. A slight chance for morning rain is to be replaced by a cloudy, windy afternoon in the mid 80's.
At some point, preparation becomes its own form of procrastination.
Just do the thing.
Today is the birth date of René Descartes. The French mathematician, scientist, and generally regarded founder of modern philosophy was born in 1596,La Haye, Touraine, France. His famous comment “cogito ergo sum” (I think, therefore, I am) underlined what is now called materialist duality and the “body/mind” problem.
Ukrainian-born Russian humorist, novelist, and dramatist Nikolai Gogol was born on this day in the Cossack village of Sorochintsy in 1809.
And, it’s Al Gore's 78th birthday today. The 45th vice president of the United States in the administration of president Bill Clinton, he was born in 1948 Washington, D.C. He was the grandson of Thomas Gore, an early day Senator from Oklahoma.
Speaking of Oklahoma . . .
Oklahoma! the musical first opened on Broadway in 1943, written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II—it was the first of 11 musicals written by the iconic team. widely regarded as a watershed in American musical theater history.
In 1998, The British National Theatre production revived the musical. It was directed by Trevor Nunn, then Artistic Director of the Royal National Theatre and stared a young Hugh Jackman in a stunning, break-through performance as “Curley.” Its latest renewal was in New York in a 2019 Tony Award staging. The Nunn/Jackman/National Theatre performance is available on video and worth experiencing.