Expect the unexpected

Tew's day's mailbox is not “just another day.”

It's the 130th anniversary of Dorothy Parker's birth. One of the charter members of the Algonquin Round Table was born in 1893 Long Branch, New Jersey.

Résumé

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live. – Dorothy Parker, from Enough Rope, Boni & Liveright, 1926.

French composer Claude Debussy was born on this date in 1862 Saint-Germain-en-Laye. For a taste of Debussy.

It's the birthday of Annie Proulx. The novelist was born in 1935 Norwich, Connecticut. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her second novel, The Shipping News (1993).

And, Ray Bradbury was born on this day in 1920 Waukegan, Illinois.

My voice becomes both a breath and a shout.

One prepares the way, the other

surrounds my lonliness with angels. – Rilke