Cruel red sky . . .
Saturday, March 15, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . Yesterday's Western high winds, multiple range fires in the area and today's Northwesterlies have left TulseyTown with some sunshine mixed with smokey clouds. Winds are forecasted to be moderate with temperatures in the low 60's. Northerlies tonight are indicated to provide further clearing. The Spring roller coaster is supposed to settle down by mid-week with ten sunny days to follow in the 70's with overnights finally holding in the 40's. My indoor/outdoor plants are finally outside after their long Winter sleep.
In the mailbox this morning . . .
A reminder: Today is the Ides of March, the day Julius Caesar was stabbed to death by conspirators in 44 B.C.E. … It’s not quite true that a soothsayer warned Caesar to “Beware the Ides of March!” as Shakespeare says. In fact, the soothsayer warned Caesar a month earlier to beware a 30-day period ending in the Ides of March, that is, the times from February 15 to March 15. But the Ides had finally come.
In 2019, More than 1.5 million students participated in climate change protests around the world as part of Fridays for Future, a movement started by Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg.
Not that you really wanted to know, but today is the birthdate of Franciscus Sylvius in 1614, Hanau, Germany. The physician, physiologist, anatomist, and chemist helped shift medical emphasis from mystical speculation to a rational application of universal laws of physics and chemistry.
Today's the day in 1972 that The Godfather premiered in theatres. Directed by Francis Coppola, the film won multiple Academy Awards.
It's the birthdate of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in 1933, Brooklyn, New York. She was the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 to 2020.
The struggle within the Democratic Party over how to navigate [with the government funding bill] says a lot about the larger political struggle in the United States … Praise for the resisters shows the popular demand for leaders who will stand up to Trump and Musk. This kind of struggle is not the first, nor likely the last, time. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
The City of Boston has declared itself a sanctuary city for the transgender community, sending a clear message that equality and protection matter.
Trump and Musk aren't about making government more effective. It’s about cruelty. That’s the point. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Ebb Tide
Sunset brings the memory:
forgiveness gives
again before above.
Above the mountain world's mountain
a full moon rises amid an echo
from an infinite eternity.
In the red sky dawn
over the wine dark sea
the cruelties of the world recede
if only after a moment.
– jab