Praising art monsters . . .

Friday, August 1, 2025. It's Fria's (Frigg's) day . . .A good four-hour visited rain TulseyTown this morning. Forecasts indicate Northerlies with cloudy and much cooler conditions throughout the weekend and for the first few days of the coming week before the heat dome returns.

Nearly everything we are taught is false except how to read. – Jim Harrison

Novelist Herman Melville was born on this day in New York City (1819

Keeping track of Trump's narcicissm. – Heather Cox Richardson, in yesterday evening's Letters From An American.

A tragic moment for the judiciary.-- Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, 7.31.25.

Happy U.S. birthday, Colorado.

In Praise of Art Monsters. – Sophie Strand, in Make Me Good Soil, 8.1.25.

Another Country

I love these raw moist dawns with

a thousand birds you hear but can't

quite see in the mist.

My old alien body is a foreigner

struggling to get into another country.

The loon call makes me shiver.

Back at the cabin I see a book

and am not quite sure what that is.

– Jim Harrison, "Another Country" from Dead Man’s Float. Copper Canyon Press, 2016.