The secret road of love . . .

Monday, April 6, 2026. It's the Moon's day . . . forecasts for Green Country and TulseyTown indicate ten days of upper 70's and low 80's with mainly sunny skies and moderate Southerlies. Rain chances are increasing over the weekend and next week.

Not merely figuratively: Your life and your love will always and forever have the final word.  

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

Today is the birthday of Merle Haggard. The Kennedy Center honoree and multi-grammy award singer/songwriter was born in 1937, Oildale, California.

The master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance, Raphael, was born in 1483, Urbino, Duchy of Urbino [Italy].

The molecular biologist James Watson was born on this day in 1928, Chicago, Illinois. He and three others – should have been four – received the Nobel Prize for their work on the discovery of DNA.

For you: An hour long, enlightening discussion/interview with Ken Burns, courtesy of Gavin Newsome. The focus revolves around Mark Twain's advice: If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

The world could use more loving-kindness. We can do that.

Portrait [Machado]

. . .leftist blood moves through my body. . .

my poems rise from a calm and deep spring. . .

I am not one of the blue jays who sing so well. . .

I fall silent so as to separate

voices from echoes.

I listen among the voices

to one voice and only one.

I talk aways to the one

who walks along with me. . .

my soliloquies are discussions

with this friend, who taught me

the secret of loving human beings.

– Antonio Machado, “Portrait,” in the longer poem “Retrato” in Campos de Castilla, Renacimiento Madrid. 1912. [this translation by Robert Bly and edited by James Allen Bethel, in the anthology The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, Harper Collins. 1992.]