The importance of becoming human . . .

Saturday, May 31, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . and easy Westerlies are to bring sunshine and upper 80's to TulseyTown today. The weatherfeather says there is a sight chance for a thunderstorm. I hope for not – my back yard grass is near ankle high in want of mowing.

The Tulsa race massacre of 1921 started today. It was one of the most severe incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.

Clint Eastwood turns 95 today. The multiple award laureate film producer, director and actor was born in 1930 San Francisco.

And, the poet Walt Whitman was born today in 1819 West Hills, New York.

This piggish president with his lavish contempt for people does not represent us and he will be stopped. – Garrison Keillor https://garrisonkeillor.substack.com/p/underwood-man-confronts-an-algorithm

There Was A Child Went Forth

There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became,

And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day . . . .

or for many years or stretching cycles of years.

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– Walt Whitman, “There Was A Child Went Forth,” in Leaves of Grass. (in the public domain)