Yakety Yak . . .

Tuesday, May 20, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . Moderate to strong Northwesterlies have cleared the skies over TulseyTown. The weatherfeather says sunny and upper 70's. Clear and easy breezes tonight, mid 50's by dawn tomorrow.

“I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.” – Rilke

Ok, so you sometimes talk to your plants. Are they listening? Do they talk back? Well, yes, sort of …

Are we listening?

Shakespeare's sonnets were first published today in 1609.

Perhaps the greatest novelist of all time, Honoré de Balzac (The Divine Comedy) was born in 1799 Tours, France.

The English-born poet W.H. Auden became a U.S. citizen today in 1946.

The whole world heard this one: The Krakatoa volcano in the Sunda Strait of Indonesia began a 3 month eruption on this date in 1883.

What if your body unravels but no doctor can name the disease, much less provide successful treatment?

You don’t get a new heart valve so you can go play golf, I say. Make yourself useful. Grandma would approve of that. She had high standards and I’m still trying to measure up. – Garrison Keillor, The Column.

Where do all these words come from?