Ripples without pebbles . . .

Wednesday, February 26, 2025. It's Odin's day and the roller-coaster Spring heads toward March here in TulseyTown.

...after a brief honeymoon period for Mr. Trump and Republicans at the start of their governing trifecta, voters beginning to digest the effects of their agenda may be starting to sour on it. – Robert Jimson, The New York Times, 2.25.25

From the in-case-you-didn't-know mail:

Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding...Nearly two-thirds of the $38 billion in funds have been promised to Musk’s businesses in the past five years.

Speaking of bad boys... one of the bad boys of the Renaissance, playwright Christopher Marlowe was baptized in Canterbury, England, on this date in 1564.

Today is the birth date of Victor Hugo. The author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Misérables was born in 1802 Besançon, France.

Today is also Johnny Cash's birthdate. He was born in 1932, Kingsland, Arkansas.

And The rock'n'roll pioneer Fats Domino was born on this day in1928, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Lots of popular culture songs mirror spirit behind images of secular love affairs.

Anne Lamott has a new book just published: "Somehow" ... in it she shares that her favorite song -- sung at her wedding and requested for whenever her funeral is held -- is "Ripple" by The Greatful Dead. Mirrors much about The Dead, Anne, me, us, even the ripples on The Watercourse Way.