Poets true and false . . .

It's the Satyr's day . . . a cloudy, cold day in TulseyTown with rain chances increasing and more Winter on The Way.

Heads up readers... yers trooley is taking a Winter vacation break that will affect the regular blog postings for the next 18-20 days depending on weather and airlines. There will be some postings, but likely not daily as has been the habit of late.

Birthdays today:

Isaac Newton was born in 1643 Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England

Jacob Grimm, he of The Brothers Grimm, was born in 1785 Hanau, Germany.

And, the French educator who developed a system of printing and writing, called Braille, extensively used by the blind, Louis Braille, was born on today's date in 1809 Coupvray, near Paris, France.

Crises get a lot of attention, but the quiet work of fixing them gets less. And if that work ends the crisis that got all the attention, the success itself makes people think there was never a crisis to begin with. Twenty-five years ago, In the aftermath of the Y2K problem, people began to treat it as a joke – It wasn't. The fix had taken a decade. As we launch ourselves into 2025, one of the key issues of the new year will be whether Americans care that the U.S. government does the hard, slow work of governing and, if it does, who benefits. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

Joyce Vance outlines Trump's plan for Mass Deportations & The Return of Family Separation, in Civil Discourse.

...the true poet is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set. The false poet travels abroad in strange countries ... and is dissatisfied. He is not as happy as the man who stays at home and sees the apple trees flower in spring, and hears the small birds singing among the branches. ― Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales.