How not to get lost . . .

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

It's Odin's day . . . Strong Northerlies, mid 60's, sun and clouds mixed: Spring in Green Country and TulseyTown.

To live without roads seems one way not to get lost. – Naomi Shihab Nye

The Hindenburg disaster occurred today in 1937 Manchester Township, New Jersey.

The numbers are starting to come in. The grift and greed is staggering. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

Thoughts and reflections for a younger generation. – Robert Reich, 5.5.26

Broadway's 2026 Tony Award nominees were announced yesterday.

The innovating motion-picture actor, director, producer, and writer Orson Welles was born on this day in 1915, Kenosha, Wisconsin. Welles wrote, directed, produced, and acted in several of his films, including that of Citizen Kane—one of the most-influential films in the history of the art.

George Clooney is 65 today. The laureate actor, filmmaker, director and screenwriter was born in 1961, Lexington, Kentucky.

Its the birthday of silent film matinee idol Rudolph Valentino, born in 1895, Castellaneta, Italy.

And, today is the birthdate of Sigmund Freud, born in 1856, Freiberg, Moravia, Austrian Empire [now Příbor, Czech Republic].

Fairytales, Metamorphosis, and Relational Ontologies. – Sophie Strand, Make Me Good Soil, 5.5.26.

Gate A-4

. . .

And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and I thought, This
is the world I want to live in. The shared world. Not a single person in that
gate—once the crying of confusion stopped—seemed apprehensive about
any other person. They took the cookies. I wanted to hug all those other women, too.

This can still happen anywhere. Not everything is lost.

– Naomi Shihab Nye, “Gate A-4,” in Honeybee, Greenwillow Books, 2008.