Give a wink . . .

Wednesday, September 2, 2026. It's Odin's day . . . At 8:20 a.m. the forecasts for Green Country indicate a day like yesterday and tomorrow: Hot, moderate Southerlies, high UV beyond measure. The index for TulseyTown's afternoon is to be at least 105º.

The price tag for an undergrad degree has passed the $100K mark at 10 colleges with more to come. – Danielle Douglas-Gabriel at The Washington Post. Personal note: My BA, MA, and PhD all together didn't begin to reach that level.

Today is the birthdate of humorist and newspaperman Eugene Field. The author of “Wynken, Blynken and Nod” and “The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat” as well as “Little Boy Blue,” among many was born in 1850 St. Louis, Missouri.

Wynken, Blynken and Nod

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Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes,
And Nod is a little head,
And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies
Is a wee one's trundle-bed;
So shut your eyes while Mother sings
Of wonderful sights that be,
And you shall see the beautiful things
As you rock in the misty sea
Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three:—
Wynken,
Blynken,
And Nod.

– Eugene Field, “ Wynken, Blynken and Nod,” first published in 1889, under its original title, “Dutch Lullaby” in the Chicago Daily News. Later included in Field's A Little Book of Western Verse, published by Scribner in 1896. This poem is in the public domain. Read the whole poem here.