What makes us human?

Thursday, March 19, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . and 90º heat is forecast for TulseyTown today. Easy Southerlies are to maintain sunny skies.

Each of us is always changing, preciously impermanent, and lacking any essential qualities that divide and distinguish us from one another.

Yesterday, I opened Pandora's Box, now known a Ai. And, almost immediately afterwards came Soren' post with these questions: What makes a human human, and who wants to hang out with the smartest person in a room. anyway?

Speaking of Pandora's Box...Trump wants a secret network of prisons. His new DHS chief is posed to be the architect. And, I'm embarrassed to say, he's from my home state.

Joyce Vance posted a reminder: we have not forgotten about the Epstein files. In Civil Discourse today.

And the cover-up just gets darker. – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.

Speaking of dark: Today is the birthday of novelist Philip Roth. The Author of Goodbye Columbus and Portnory's Complaint was born in 1933 Newark, New Jersey.

It's also the birthday of Richard Francis Burton. The translator, writer, soldier, and all-around adventurer was born in 1821Torquay, England. He gave us The Arabian Nights as well as introducing The Kama Sutra to the Western world.

And the legendary African-American comedian Jackie “Moms” Mabley was born on this day in 1894 Brevard, North Carolina.

What I knew 70 years ago. – Garrison Keillor, The Column, 3.16.26

The universe has but one principle:

Create,

subsumed by one word:

Love.

If you haven't changed your life,

it's time.

– after Rumi