Leave it to the trickster Moon . . .

It is definitely the Moon's day... it will block out near 95% of the sun this afternoon in the TulseyTown area around 1:45 p.m. for about 5 minutes.

Wake up. Do it all again. Hope for better, even if it's only 30 seconds.

Writing in my journal this morning, I wrote the word “failure” and misspelled it. Marking it out, my pen ran out of ink.

Novelist Barbara Kingsolver turns 69 today. She was born in 1955 Annapolis, Maryland

What Will We See When The Lights Go Out

… when everything purples,

when the birds change key, when millions

of us look, not to the sky but left and right, and see

each other, gone out of our way to stand,

together, where the light disappears.

– Ryan McCarty, Poets Respond, Rattle, April 7, 2024