A prophet’s fortune

In the mailbox this cloudy and cold Satyr's day . . .

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change. – Euripides

Today is the solemn third anniversary of Trump’s effort to undo American democracy...It’s a disturbing convergence of events. – Joyce Vance

It's the birthday of poet Khalil Gibran, born in the1883 mountain village of Bsharri, Lebanon.

It's also the birth date of Carl Sandburg. The journalist, poet, novelist, and biographer was born in 1878 Galesburg, Illinois

The poet W. D. Snodgrass was born on yesterday's date in 1926 Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania

Also yesterday, Umberto Eco was born in the 1932 Piedmont region of Italy.

Then one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, Speak to us of Crime and Punishment.

And he answered, saying:

It is when your spirit goes wandering upon the wind,

That you, alone and unguarded, commit a wrong unto others and therefore unto yourself.

And for that wrong committed must you knock and wait a while unheeded at the gate of the blessed.

– Khalil Gibran, “On Crime and Punishment,” in The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf , 1923.