Mine eyes have seen . . .

Tuesday, April 15, 2025. It's Tiw's day … Easy Northerlies continue to bring clear, sunny skies to TulseyTown today. The weatherfeather indicates an afternoon again in the low 70's.

What people have seen.

Yesterday:

In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.

In 1912 the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on its way from Southampton, England, to New York City.

And in 1939 Nobel laureate John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was published.

Today:

Today is the 573rd anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's birth in 1452 Vinci, Italy.

Emma Thompson turns 66 today. The international multiple award laureate actress and screenwriter was born in 1959, London, England

The Week Ahead – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse 4.14.25

The Truro Bear

People have seen it – three

or four, or two, or one. I think.

[...]

Common sense mutters:

It can't be true …

[…]

But the seed has been planted,

and when has happiness

ever required much evidence

to begin its leaf-green breathing?

— Mary Oliver, “The Truro Bear,” original publication in Twelve Moons. Back Bay Books, 1979.