The distrust of educated independent minds . . .

Saturday, August 2, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . Northeasterlies are forecasted to bring back some sunshine amidst some clouds over TulseyTown today. A cool morning and warm afternoon.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [Then you discover] that the things that torment the most [are] the very things that connect [us] with all the people who are alive, who have ever been alive.”
―James Baldwin, quote from a profile interview for LIFE magazine, published in 1963.

… while the job numbers have looked good, in fact the economy has been weakening for months . . . Predictably, Trump lashed out. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American, posted last night.

Isabel Allende turns 83 today. The sometimes “magical realist” novelist was born in 1942 Lima, Peru.

Mary-Louise Parker is 61 today. The multi laureate award winning actor was born in 1964, Fort Jackson, South Carolina. She's a product of the North Carolina School for the Arts.

Today is also the birthdate of Peter O’Toole. Another laureate award actor, he was born in 1932, Leeds, Yorkshire, England.

And, it's James Baldwin's birthday. The essayist, novelist, and playwright was born in 1924 poverty-stricken Harlem, New York.

“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
―James Baldwin, essay in The Creative Process, UCLA, 1963.