Poets rebel, a fever breaks . . .

Thursday, April 24, 2025, It's Thor's day . . . Moderate Southerlies bring a 50-50 chance for thunderstorms to TulseyTown late this afternoon. So, a cloudy, cool upper 70's day.

The mailbox was jam-packed this morning.

Trump's plan for Ukraine is a total sellout to Russia and would give Putin everything he's campaigned for since 2014. – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.

On this day in 1916 the “Easter Rising” began in Dublin. Also known as the “Poet's Rebellion” it had the aim of ending British rule and creating the Irish Republic. April 24th is the occasion of birthday celebrations for four major creatives.

It's the birth date of poet, novelist, literary critic Robert Penn Warren. The first U.S. poet laureate was born in 1905 Guthrie, Kentucky. He remains the only person to win the Pulitzer Prize in both fiction and poetry.

Shirley MacLaine turns 91. The Kennedy Center laureate and multiple Academy Award actress was born in 1934, Richmond Virginia.

Barbra Streisand is 83, born in 1942, Brooklyn, New York. Her list of awards is too long to post here, but among them: also a Kennedy Center laureate, as well as The Presidential Medal of Freedom, and multiple Tony, Grammy and Academy Awards.

Kelly Clarkson is 43. The multiple Emmy and Grammy laureate was born in 1982, Fort Worth,Texas.

Today is also the birth date of the painter Willem de Kooning. Among the leading exponents of Abstract Expressionism, he was born in 1904, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

The fever breaks. The spring finally arrives. I feel like what the cherry trees are doing outside. There is no time left for anything but love stories. – Sophie Strand, “The Good Catastrophe.” posted on Make Me Good Soil, 4.23.25