Joy is coming . . .
Thursday, July 31, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . Much cooler days are under way in TulseyTown. Moderate Northerlies brought light rain to the morning and are forecasted to maintain cloudy skies until tomorrow evening. A preview of September? Heat indices are indicated to be in the 90's along with high humidity. The heat dome is to return Tuesday.
“Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
― Don Marquis.
J.K. Rowling turns 60 today. The Harry Potter author was born in 1965 Yate, Gloucestershire, England.
A fave of mine, poet and novelist Kim Addonizio turns 71 today (gasp!). The born in Washington, D.C. (1954).
. . . six months into the second Trump administration, on the sixtieth anniversary of the law that symbolized the modern American state by establishing Medicare and Medicaid, it’s clear we are indeed in a revolution designed to destroy the government we have known in favor of the radical right-wing government envisioned by those who wrote Project 2025. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
How we lose it all. – Robert Reich, What fascist control looks like. Online, 7.31.25.
A “you're welcome” note to Okieland from Gavin Newsom’’…
California sent $83 billion more than they received to the federal government.
That means red states that receive more than they send rely on California for critical dollars from the federal government that help fund education, healthcare and — apparently — this new tax break supported by Oklahoma Republicans.
This isn’t the people of Oklahoma’s fault. It’s irresponsible Republican legislators and governors like Stitt who are so used to California paying for their necessities, they decide to give the money they have to rich folks instead of investing in their people and their needs. You're welcome, I guess... Gavin Newsom, from an email left over in my mailbox over the past weekend.
It is worth recalling that Oklahoma voters – that would be some of your neighbors and maybe even you – are responsible for putting the present governor and legislators into office.
Some events are better experienced than explained. Take soul. Your joy is your job. And yours alone. – Samantha Thornhill, “38. Shedding The Old.” The Academy of American Poets, 7.31.25.
. . . if you swam across a river under rain sang
using a dildo for a microphone stayed up
to watch the moon eat the sun entire
ripped out the stitches in your heart
because why not if you think nothing &
no one can / listen I love you joy is coming
– Kim Addonizio, “To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall.” Now We're Getting Somewhere. W.W. Norton, 2021.