You can't always get what you want . . .
Wednesday, June 25, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . Moderate Southerlies are in the forecasts bringing a few clouds and the slightest of rain chances to the afternoon. The Moon is new. Hiding from the heat? As it begins its waxing cycle this weekend, forecasts indicate good rain chances as the high pressure heat dome begins to wane.
Burying the lede: It seems to me long past time to question the 79-year-old president’s mental health. – Heather Cox Richardson in yesterday's Letters From An American.
Anne Frank's diary was published on this day in 1947.
Today is the birth date of George Orwell. The author of 1984 was born Eric Blair in a small village in 1903 Bengal, India. 1984 has been translated into 62 languages and sold more than 10 million copies.
Two pieces posted in the past two days by Robert Reich seemed to me to be extraordinarily worthwhile … So here they are:
Perhaps the most important message for these times from someone who wasn't Liz Cheny.
A conversation with a group of students, friends and colleagues on the occasion of Robert's 79th birthday.
Sailor, Home from the See
Nobody told us
how to navigate the watercourse way,
that waking up anyplace we woke up
was an OK place to be –
at least for that one instant
before the current carried us
to where we are right now
reading this.
– jab