It's still Our Town . . .
Thursday, April 17, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . and another windy one is in the forecasts for TulseTown today. By afternoon, strong Southerlies may gust to 40 mph amid bringing a mix of clouds with otherwise sunny skies and upper 80's . The weatherfeather indicates a wet weekend upcoming.
In the mailbox this morning . . .
The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self. – Mr. Rogers.
Building an artificial scientist isn't far away.
In the Abrego Garcia case against the Trump administration, the record reflects that any party other than the government would already be in contempt proceedings, if not the U.S. Marshal’s lockup. It's a complex proceeding, but with important implications for every person in the U.S. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, 4.16.25
With the persistence of a toddler who shuts his eyes and pretends something doesn’t exist, Trump wishes the Constitution and the rule of law out of existence, with the complicity of people around him who are willing to parse the law into nonsense in his service. Lawyers have more tools to resist than most people, so when they don’t, that’s bad news for all of us. But some of them are resisting. – also from the prolific Joyce Vance in another post on 4.16.25's Civil Discourse.
We have a deranged president. Republicans elected him and they need to find a home for him. Assisted living. Florida. A big patio looking at the Gulf of America. Surrounded by razor ribbon. – after Garrison Keillor.
And, Thornton Wilder was born on this day in 1897 Madison, Wisconsin.
Instructions On Not Giving Up
It’s the greening of the trees
that really gets to me
[…]
Patient, plodding, a green skin
growing over whatever winter did to us, a return
to the strange idea of continuous living despite
[...]
Fine then,
I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all.
– Ada Limón, from The Carrying, Milkweed Editions, 2018. Birthday March 28, 1976.
A theory of navigation . . .
Wednesday, April 16, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . Moderate Southerlies and a mix of sun and clouds are indicated in the weatherfeather's forecast for TulseyTown along with low 80's.
Joy is not in things. It is in us. Be still. Listen.
Essayist and short-story writer Carol Bly was born today in 1930 Duluth, Minnesota.
Loaves and Fishes
This is not
the age of information.
– David Whyte, “Loaves and Fishes,” from The House of Belonging. Many Rivers Press. 1997
“It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.” – Carol Bly,
The streams of identity change over time; they deepen, dry out, or carve up a different path, but in the ocean … none of those distinctions exist.
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.