A canary sang of strange fruit . . .

Thursday, August 28, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . and parts of TulseyTown are likely to hear his hammer as forecasts indicate Easterlies bringing thunderstorms for everyone. Low 70's

“Do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose. Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently until the song that is your life falls into your cupped hands and you recognize and greet it.”
—Martha Postlewaite

Rita Dove turns 73 today. The poet, essayist, university professor, Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S.Poet Laureat was born in 1952, Akron, Ohio.

And, It's the birthdate of Robertson Davies. The novelist,playwright, essayist, humorist (The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks),and another major influencer of Yers Trooley was born in 1913 Thamesville, Ontario.

ICE actions bring back memories of America's dark history. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

Today in 1963, 250,000 people gathered for a “March on Washington, and heard the now famous “I Have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.

After the tragic assassinations of both Martin Luther King, Jr. and US Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-MA) earlier in the year, America was on a powder keg. At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in July 1968, the powder keg erupted.

Canary

Billie Holiday’s burned voice
had as many shadows as lights,
a mournful candelabra against a sleek piano,
the gardenia her signature under that ruined face...
Fact is, the invention of women under siege
has been to sharpen love in the service of myth.
If you can’t be free, be a mystery.

– Rita Dove