Streaking to the music . . .
Monday, July 14, 2025. It's the Moon's day . . . and it has begun to wane from hunting in the forests. Sun and clouds in TulseyTown this morning are forecasted to yield to clouds and a 30% chance of rain this afternoon. Light North and Easterly breezes. Temps in the upper 80's.
Joy is not in things. It is in us.
Today is Bastille Day in France. It wa on this day in 1789 an angry mob stormed the Bastille prison in Paris and launched the French Revolution.
"Woody" Guthrie was born on this day in 1912 Okemah, Oklahoma. On a guitar he found in the street, he wrote “this machine kills fascists.”
Playwright Arthur Laurents (West Side Story) was born today in 1917 Brooklyn.
And, its the birthdate of novelist and playwright Irving Stone (Lust for Life) born in 1903 San Francisco, California.
Robert Reich posted a personal note today for his regular and occasional readers.
Trump and the Epstein saga splitting up the MAGA crowd. The facts posted yesterday by Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.
The Summer of 1969 was the peak of the counter-culture “revolution” in the U.S. Easy Rider hit the movie screen, the Woodstock Music Festival was held in Bethel, New York. And, speaking of Bethel, yurs trooley, drafted into graduate school, I entered in August with a two day old start on a beard that is still with me. There were “hippies” in San Francisco, and naked “streakers” – even on the OU campus – capturing the media's fascination. The Grateful Dead and The Beatles dominated the music charts along with an album oriented sound track for the era rising on FM radio.