Curses and blesssings of the pen . . .

Monday, April 28, 2025. It's a new Moon's day . . . It's to become a cloudy day in TulseyTown and strong Southerlies are forecasted steady to 20 with gusts to 40 mph. Theweatherfeather says upper 70's with rain chances increasing tonight into definitely tomorrow.

[L]ooking for another language in which to communicate – the language of the unconscious. And, of course, it comes from birds. – Maria Popova, in The Margialian.

Lots of date reminders filled the mailbox this morning.

Today in 1947 Norwegian ethnologist and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl and a small crew set sail from Peru aboard the primitive raft Kon-Tiki. They arrived in Polynesia three and a half months later.

Chef and author Alice Waters turns 81 today. Born in 1944 Chatham, New Jersey, she established Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, marking the beginning of the farm-to-table movement.

It's Harper Lee's birthday. The author of To Kill a Mockingbird was born on this day in 1926 Monroeville, Alabama.

Today is Robert Anderson's birth date. The playwright, screenwriter, Academy Award nominee and theatrical producer was born in 1917 New York City.

It's the birth date of the Academy Award, stage and radio actor Lionel Barrymore. Perhaps the least flamboyant member of the Barrymore acting family was born in 1878, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Penélope Cruz turn 51 today. The Academy Award laureate international actress was born in 1974, Madrid, Spain

Carolyn Forché turns 74 today. The poet, editor, professor, translator, and human rights advocate was born in 1950 Detroit, Michigan.

"No one is a great poet because she is a miserable drunk. No one is a great poet because he has had a nervous breakdown. Suffering, however, can be experienced as a curse or a blessing; the luckiest is the one who can experience it as a blessing." – Carolyn Forché