Love and footsteps …

Saturday, February 1, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . a downright balmy weekend is settling over TulseyTown. Despite cold mornings, afternoons are forecasted to be in the mid to upper 60's with moderate to strong Southerlies. Nice day for a walk to the Heron Pond.

The first part of the first edition of The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) was published on this date in 1884.

And, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was sworn in on this day in 2009 as Iceland's Prime Minister. She is the first woman PM in Iceland, and the first openly LGBTQ to hold such a post in the world.

Today is the birth date of Influential poet and novelist, Langston Hughes. A major creator of the “Harlem Renaissance” was born in 1902 Joplin, Missouri – slightly more than a stone's throw from my front porch.

Also, today is the birth date of Galway Kinnell. The poet was born in 1927 Providence, Rhode Island. He, along with Richard Brautigan, taught me of the unity of art and science. He once said that he wrote poems that didn't require a college degree to understand.

"After Making Love We Hear Footsteps" by Galway Kinnell introduced by Garrison Keillor.