Throwing rocks at a falling sky…

Saturday, February 22, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . and TulseyTown will rise above freezing in about half an hour at 11 a.m.

Would it make more sense if I paid less attention to the news?

Documenting the Trump disaster. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

“If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this: It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.” – Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker, cited by Ms. Richardson further documenting the ongoing destruction.

In contrast, consider that the first President of The United States of America, George Washington was born on this date in 1732, Westmoreland county, Virginia.

And, the first woman Pulitzer Prize laurate for poetry, Edna St. Vincent Millay, was born on this date in 1892 Rockland, Maine.

The courage that my mother had

The courage that my mother had
went with her, and is with her still:
Rock from New England quarried;
now granite in a granite hill.

[…]

Oh, if instead she’d left to me
the thing she took into the grave!—
That courage like a rock, which she
has no more need of, and I have.

– Edna St. Vincent Millay, “The courage that my mother had” from Collected Poems. 1954.