Sleep dancing the blues. . .

Saturday, April 26, 2025.

It's the Satyr's day in TulseyTown. A rainy day is in the forecasts. Easterlies are to bring heavy thunderstorms this afternoon with upper 60's

Talking about The Way is like naming dance after architects. That said, here’s what spilled from the mailbox this morning.

Today in 1607, settlers arrived at the first permanent English settlement in North America. The Jamestown Colony was established near present-day Williamsburg, Virginia.

Yesterday poet Ted Kooser turned 86 years young. The U.S. Poet Laureate was born in 1939 Ames, Iowa.

Today is the birthdate of “the mother of the blues.” Ma Rainey was born in 1886 Columbus, Georgia.

Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted was born on this date in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1822

Arguably the most influential and important philosopher of the 20th century, Ludwig Wittgenstein was born today in 1889 Vienna

The Watercourse looks to be having its Way with Trump. He appears more and more to be in over his head. Heather Cox Ricardson summarized the week in Letters From An American.

[A] whole day can unfold in an indistinct blur … It takes practice if we want to really taste what is happening to us. – Holly Wren Spaulding.

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream.

But we wake up sometimes, just enough

to know that we are dreaming.

– Wittgenstein