Be careful trying to touch the moon . . .
Saturday, April 12, 2025.
It's the Satyr's day . . .The saunter to the mailbox this morning was under clear, cool and calm skies. Forecasts indicate moderate to strong Southerlies for the afternoon with more Spring sunshine and 80's. The moon is full of itself. The “Pink Flower Moon” is the smallest of full moons. Named after a flower and not actually pink, it will be rising this evening over TulseyTown about 8 p.m.
In the mailbox:
Poet Gary Soto turns 72 today.
It's also the birthday of Herbie Hancock. Born in 1940 Chicago, the jazz musician turns 72 today.
Today is the day that The Civil War began in 1861, when Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
In 1633 Galileo Galilei was put on trial on this date by the Inquisition, for supporting the theory that the Earth revolves around the sun. It wasn't until 1992 that the Catholic Church formally admitted that Galileo's views on the solar system are correct.
On this day in 1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Warm Springs, Georgia.
Heather Cox Richardson has posted a summary status report on the Der Trumpenfurher administration's latest terror tactics. Check out her Letters From An American.
What Now?
Where did the shooting stars go?
[…]
At night, I now look upward—
Jets and single-prop planes.
No brief light, nothing to wish for,
The neighbor’s security light coming on.
Big white moon on the hill,
Lantern on gravestones,
You don’t count.
— Gary Soto, “What Now,” Academy of American Poets, 2016.