An evolving future . . .

Saturday, December 27, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate near record high temperatures in the low 80's this afternoon

Today in 1831 Charles Darwin set sail on the HMS Beagle, beginning the voyage on which he would formulate his theory of evolution.

Now that Santa has no doubt retreated to wherever it is he goes to rest up from his everywhereallatonceallnightaroundtheworld journey, I thought it might be worth catching up on his history. Heather Cox Richardson posted an excellent account posted on Christmas day in her Letters From An American.

Interview with New York's soon to be (this Thursday) Mayor Zohran Mamdani with Robert Reich, posted yesterday.

We Speak of August

We don’t know what will happen

between one raindrop and the next,

yet we speak of August as if it were a contract

[…]

In the eastern sky the first star is out,

preparing for the long night of wishes.

[…]

— Valentina Gnup, the Rattle Poetry Prize “We Speak of August” in Rattle #34, Winter, 2010.