Spring and the birth of creativity. . .

Friday, March 20, 2026. It's Freya's day . . . a record heat is settling over Green Country. TuleyTown forecasts indicate mid 90's, easy Southerlies, clear sunny skies.

Love is an alchemy with high stakes.

The latest on Fulton County. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse today.

March 28, No Kings! – Robert Reich, “Get Ready.”

Yesterday was the birthday of laureate actor Glenn Close. She turned 79 having been born in 1947, Greenwich, Connecticut.

Creatives' birthdays continued to spill over from the mailbox today . . .

Laureate film producer/director Spike Lee is 69, born in 1957, Atlanta, Georgia; laureate actor William Hurt is 71, born in 1950, Washington, D.C.; children's television Fred Rogers in 1928, Latrobe,Pennsylvania; revolutionary playwriter Henrik Ibsen in 1828, Skien, Norway; psychologist B.F. Skinner in 1904, Susquehanna,Pennsylvania; and the Roman poet Ovid was born in 43BCE in what is now Sulmona, Italy.

Oh, and ... yers trooley celebrates his 84th, having been born on this date in 1942 Tulsa, Oklahoma.

This group has at least one other unifying fact: Today is the Spring/Vernal Equinox. It crossed into TulsyTown at 9:45 a.m. while this post was being written
Speaking of Ovid . . .

Life seems to ask us to fall in love in many different ways … taking the path of love always has its costs and its vulnerabilities but refusing the path of love also has its steep costs … The transactions in deep love and intimacy are not transactions at all, but a form of alchemy, of melding and of a unification that make moveable and even erase our previous boundaries … Whether we refuse love or risk ourselves in love there is actually no sincere path a person can take without having their hearts broken. – David Whyte, “The Cost Of Love” (an invitation to an online series).