Celebrate National Book Month!
Here’s a link with some ideas. 11 Ways To Celebrate National Book Month (2022)
Happy Myths and Legends Day, Joseph Campbell!
In addition to writing The Hero With A Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell taught comparative religion at Sarah Lawrence College. Joseph Campbell’s Wikipedia Page.
It’s National Mad Hatter Day
“A land was full of wonder, mystery, and danger. Some say, to survive it, you need to be as mad as a hatter. Which, luckily, I am.” Lewis Carroll, Through Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
Yes, The Onion’s SCOTUS Brief Is Hysterical. And Brilliant.
The Onion is the world’s leading news publication, offering highly acclaimed, universally revered coverage of breaking national, international, and local news events. Rising from its humble beginnings as a print newspaper in 1756, The Onion now enjoys a daily readership of 4.3 trillion and has grown into the single most powerful and influential organization in […]
The Hurricane
I posted this picture on September 15, 2017, when Hurricane Irma rolled in. It has happened again. I don’t have much to add about the ongoing devastation from Hurricane Ian that hit five years later. Except, that it is much worse. The word is that all Lee County hospitals (owned and operated by the same […]
I’m A Ram
Bart and I were sitting around an early morning campfire waiting for the day lineup to start when this white kid in dreadlocks and a hangdog look walked out of the Suwanee mist. “Was I here last night? Have you seen my car keys?” He was despondent and couldn’t remember where he’d been the night […]
Happy Day to Coltrane and F. Scott Fitzgerald (tomorrow)!
“There are no second acts in American lives.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
It’s Banned Book Week and Mike Royko’s Birthday!! Savor the irony.
Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn’t the faintest idea what the heck is really going on. Mike Royko On a related note, George Orwell’s 1984 is the most banned book in history. I love that To Kill A Mockingbird is high on […]
Today’s Quote
In school, they kept telling me that simplicity demands less adornment rather than more. Words are the clothing of our thoughts. Jonathan Swift
