A big day in L.A. Federal Court . . .

Thursday, June 12, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . and rain showers, on then off, throughout TulseyTown this morning is forecasted for tonight and tomorrow morning. Moderate Southerlies and cool mid 70's this afternoon.

Anne Frank was born on this day in 1929 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

For the first time in a U.S. federal court, there will be cameras in the the courtroom today in the hearing in the California case, the one involving the state’s request for a temporary restraining order against the federal government after it deployed National Guardsmen and Marines to Los Angeles.

Peaceful protests don’t get covered by the national media. Most of the people who come together in places like Des Moines and Kansas City to express their outrage at what Trump is doing aren’t heard or seen. Yet such solidarity is to be celebrated. It is the foundation of the common good. – Robert Reich, Solidarity Now, online.

Maybe what we can do when we feel overwhelmed is to start small. Start with what we have loved as kids and see where that leads us. – Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Sophie Strand's June compost heap, in Make Me Good Soil, online.

Just as the Calendar Began to Say Summer

I went out of the schoolhouse fast

and through the gardens and to the woods,

and spent all summer forgetting what I'd been taught--

two times two, and diligence, and so forth,

how to be modest and useful, and how to succeed and so forth,

machines and oil and plastic and money and so forth.

By fall I had healed somewhat, but was summoned back

to the chalky rooms and the desks, to sit and remember

the way the river kept rolling its pebbles,

the way the wild wrens sang though they hadn't a penny in the bank,

the way the flowers were dressed in nothing but light.

–Mary Oliver, Long Life, Da Capo Press, 2004.