A single leaf of grass . . .

Friday, July 4, 2025. It's Frey's (Frigg's) day … and moderate Southerlies bring a few clouds to TulseyTown along with the seasonal 15% chance for a surprise thunder shower. Upper 80's are in store.

It's the 4th of July

The Statue of Liberty was presented to the United States by the French in Paris.

...the values enshrined in the Declaration of Independence — freedom and liberty, civil rights and democracy, self-determination and equality — are all under assault at this moment from the government itself...so, Celebrating the Fourth of July this year may feel a bit strange to some. - Joyce Vance, in The Contrarian: Democracy Index, 7.1.25

Essayist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau moved to his retreat at Walden Pond,

Walt Whitman first published Leaves of Grass.

A leaf of grass

is no less

than the journey work

of stars.

– Walt Whitman