Running with rabbits . . .

Tuesday, March 18, 2025. It's Tiw's day … Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate today to be the last of the really windy days for a while. Strong Southerlies in the 20+ mph range with 40 mpg gusts likely, along with mostly clear skies and mid 80's.

I think of the difference between science and civilization: Science knows it is unfinished, a perennial process, whereas every civilization mistakes itself for the end point of progress. – Maria Popova, “Obsidian and the Birds: An Odyssey of Wonder from the Aztecs to the Quantum World,” one of her best essays yet from The Marginalian, posted 3.16.25.

Creatives’ birthdays

Queen Latifah turns 55 today. The Grammy Award and Academy Award nominee was born in 1970,Newark, New Jersey.

The founder of The Paris Review, George Plimpton was born today in 1927 New York City.

And, novelist John Updike was born on this day in 1932 Shillington, Pennsylvania.

Not Cancelled Yet

Some honorary day,

if I play my remaining cards right

I might be a postage stamp ...

But I won't be there to lick me

and licking was what I liked...

– John Updike, Not Cancelled Yet, Limberlost Press. 2003