Hope is a thing with feathers, because . . .

It's Odin's day . . . using a Xerox for the weather heat-hammer . . .

Hope is not a wish, but an intention.

Today in 1944, the author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared while flying reconnaissance for the Allies. He's remembered as the author of the classic The Little Prince.

Poet and novelist Kim Addonizio turns 70 today. Another of my fave/influencers, she was born in 1954 Washington, D.C.

And, J.K. Rowling turns 59. She was born in 1965, Yate, near Bristol, England

Here Are 52 Reasons to Fear that Technological Progress Is Reversing – Ted Gioia, The Honest Broker

I really like feeling something when I stagger into a poem

& having a place to lie down & cry.

– Kim Addonizio, Now We're Getting Somewhere: Poems, Norton, 2021.