Blues boy blew his horn . . .
Tuesday, May 26, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . . clear, calm and mild at 6:30a.m. on the Way to the mailbox. Northeasterlies are in the forecasts for TulseyTown this afternoon with increasing clouds, slight rain chances and mid 80's.
Every day is Memorial Day:
Freedom is the recognition that we create our future right now, in the present. It's what becomes possible when we trust that what we do together matters. Memorial Day honors those who gave everything to protect that possibility. What we do with that gift is up to us.
Heather Cox Richardson has a powerful idea of what to do with that gift. What has made America great has always been the American people. Now, as for the past 250 years, “We Are America.”-- in Letters From An American.
America is slouching toward the 250th anniversary of our revolution against arbitrary power with a president who shamelessly exercises it. Never before have we witnessed this degree of self-dealing, bribe taking, usurpation of congressional authority, and open defiance of federal courts. – Robert Reich, Full Neofascism, 5.26.26
It's 1984 … again. – Joyce Vance, The Week Ahead, in Civil Discourse.
On this day in 1940, during World War II, the British Expeditionary Force began its evacuation of British and Allied troops from the French seaport of Dunkirk. While the Royal Air Force patrolled the skies, some 700 civilian craft—the “little ships” of Dunkirk—joined the rescue effort. In the end, 338,226 Allied troops were ferried to safety in England.
Today is the birthdate of Dorothea Lange. The documentary photographer was born in 1895 Hoboken, New Jersey. Her portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary and journalistic photography.
John Wayne was born on this day in 1907, Winterset, Iowa.
The first American woman to travel into outer space, astronaut Sally Ride, was born in 1951, Encino, California.
And, Miles Davis was born in 1926 Alton, Illinois. A five decade career placed him and his trumpet among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music.