There's still time . . .

It's Tiw's day . . . and Northerlies are bringing a touch of chill to the morning's mailbox here in TulseyTown...

People often say that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. – Selma Hayek

Joyce Vance unties the legal knots of the week ahead in Civil Discourse.

The 39th President of the U.S., Jimmy Carter was born 100 years ago today in 1924, Plains, Georgia. He is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

It's the birthday of Julie Andrews. The multiple award recipient and now Dame Andrews turns 89 today.
And, the “king of late night television,” Johnny Carson, made his first appearance as the host of NBC's The Tonight Show, on this date in 1962.

This past Saturday, Kris Kristofferson died at his home in Maui, Hawaii.

Yesterday: poet laureate of the United States, W.S. Merwin, was born in New York City on this day in 1927. Raised in Union City, New Jersey. he won the 1971 and 2009 Pulitzer Prizes, and the 2005 National Book Award.

“...there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time." — W.S. Merwin

“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.” – Thich Nhat Hanh