Lambs ignore rules . . .
Saturday, October 24, 2026. It's the Satyr's day . . . Another clear, sunny, warm Fall day is at hand for GreenCountry and TulseyTown. Easy Southerlies and low 80's afternoon.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. — J. Krishnamurti
The BBC strikes back at Trump. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
…if there was ever a time to shake off that understandable cynicism and to refuse to surrender to despair, that time is now. Because if you look back throughout the history of this country and many others around the world, real change that benefits the working people almost never occurs from the top down. It only happens when regular folks shake off the cynicism and despair they feel and act to fight against injustice.
Will it be easy? Of course not. Will we be successful? There is too much at stake not to try.
First: we do everything we can to win this election, flip the House and Senate and put a check on Donald Trump's power. Then we must build upon that success and continue the organizing work we've done not just to win an election, but to fight for a government that works for all people and not just the oligarchs spending billions of dollars in this election.
Thank you for reading. In solidarity, Alexandria – AOC in an email 10.23.26
Today is the birthdate of writer Sarah Josepha Hale, born in 1788 Newport, New Hampshire. After petitioning five consequtive presidents, she managed to convince Lincoln to create Thanksgiving Day.
It's the birthday of highly regarded Broadway playwright and director Moss Hart, born in 1904 New York City.
And poet Denise Levertov was born on this day in 1923 Ilford, England.
Mary Had A Little Lamb
Mary had a little lamb / Its fleece was white as snow / And everywhere that Mary went / The lamb was sure to go.
It followed her to school one day / Which was against the rule / It made the children laugh and play / To see a lamb at school.
And so the teacher turned it out / But still it lingered near / And waited patiently about / Till Mary did appear.
Why does the lamb love Mary so? / The eager children cry / Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know / The teacher did reply.
– ”Sara Josepha Hale, “Mary Had A Little Lamb, is in the public domain. First published under the original title “Mary’s Lamb,” in Sarah Josepha Hale’s collection Poems for Our Children, on May 24, 1830 by Marsh, Capen & Lyon in Boston, Massachusetts.