The Trump administration wants to erase the story of North Carolina civil rights hero Pauli Murray.

Senior Editor Billy Ball breaks down how to stop them.

I don’t know. Nobody knows. We’re collectively living through 1500, when it’s easier to see what’s broken than what will replace it.
—Clay Shirky

Bird is emplumada today. But mostly from hat head.

I already consider "Orlando" to be poetry but here's an interesting read: www.npr.org/2025/01/17/n...

Happy birthday to Galileo, who, along with Copernicus, untuned the Western world's Ptolemaic spheres and our place in it.

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I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
—Galileo

Sometimes I get up early and even my soul is wet.
—Pablo Neruda, from Here I Love You

Happy birthday Gertude Stein

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
—Joseph Campbell

When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.
—Archbishop Helder Camara

Send in the clowns.

There ought to be clowns.

This is the task of our generation: To regain awe. The 3 R’s need to be balanced by the 10 C’s: Contemplation, creativity, chaos, compassion, courage, critical consciousness, community, celebration, ceremony and character.
—Matthew Fox

This song is everything to me right now (and in this baritone's range). Easy to figure out on my Ovation and piano too.

I start poems for the same reason I toss seed into this rich, dark earth: to see what grows from what at first looks like nothing.
—poet Francesca Bell

Lucky me. I have time this morning to add another cento to my series.

An ethnographer who survived Hurricane Katrina & documented the human harm done by FEMA's toxic housing—returned his MS to me Friday from an LA shelter where his family is staying.

I have worried about them ever since & so hope their home is not in Pacific Palisades.