Returning to our senses . . .

Thursday, May 8, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . Easy Northerlies are to bring a mix of sun, clouds, mid 70's and 50-50% of on/off/on rain chances to TulseyTown today.

Without memory, history's greatest crimes never happened. – Paul Ricœur, Memory, History, Forgetting, University of Chicago Press, 2004. Translated by Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer.

David Attenborough turns 99 today. The English broadcaster, writer, and naturalist was born in 1926, London, England.

Today is VE Day, marking the end of World War II in Europe with the surrender of Germany.

Delight is a necessity, our sanity depends on it. – Garrison Keillor, The Column 5.7.25.

Describing Trees

A tree, like the rose we were told,

is a tree. But,

when it becomes a delight,

it’s not a “tree.”

It has become “light,”

which, for all intent and purpose

for a poet is rather beyond measure,

but may return us to our senses.

– jab