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Friday night’s finds (evidently brought to you by the colour red).
October 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Friday night’s finds (evidently brought to you by the colour red).
Goodbye, Jane. “What you do makes a difference. You have to care.”—Jane Goodall
October 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Goodbye, Jane. “What you do makes a difference. You have to care.”—Jane Goodall
Found this little gem today…
September 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Found this little gem today…
Marie Howe. Some things old and some things new. There’s a wonderful, clear matter-of-factness to her language. Bracing.
August 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Marie Howe. Some things old and some things new. There’s a wonderful, clear matter-of-factness to her language. Bracing.
It was on this day in 1875 that the largest recorded swarm of locusts in American history descended upon the Great Plains. It was a swarm about 1,800 miles long, 110 miles wide, from Canada down to Texas.
July 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
It was on this day in 1875 that the largest recorded swarm of locusts in American history descended upon the Great Plains. It was a swarm about 1,800 miles long, 110 miles wide, from Canada down to Texas.
Got this at a local Winners the other day. What!?
July 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Got this at a local Winners the other day. What!?
On this day in 1868, the first typewriter was patented by Christopher Latham Sholes. It only had capital letters and took up as much room as a large table. Mark Twain bought one, and in 1883 sent a typed manuscript of Life on the Mississippi (1883) to his publisher, the first author to do so.
June 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
On this day in 1868, the first typewriter was patented by Christopher Latham Sholes. It only had capital letters and took up as much room as a large table. Mark Twain bought one, and in 1883 sent a typed manuscript of Life on the Mississippi (1883) to his publisher, the first author to do so.
Happy Bloomsday!
June 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Happy Bloomsday!
Happy birthday, Kobayashi Issa! Born in Kashiwabara, Japan (1763), he's one of the masters of the Japanese form of poetry called haiku, which uses 17 Japanese characters broken into three distinct units.
June 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Happy birthday, Kobayashi Issa! Born in Kashiwabara, Japan (1763), he's one of the masters of the Japanese form of poetry called haiku, which uses 17 Japanese characters broken into three distinct units.
The more I read Mary Oliver, the more I read Mary Oliver.
(because of things like this—“Three Songs” from West Wind)
(because of things like this—“Three Songs” from West Wind)
June 13, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The more I read Mary Oliver, the more I read Mary Oliver.
(because of things like this—“Three Songs” from West Wind)
(because of things like this—“Three Songs” from West Wind)
What was wrong with the old taste?
June 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
What was wrong with the old taste?
three more days!
March 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
three more days!
Happy birthday, Akira Kurosawa!
Akira Kurosawa was born in Tokyo, Japan (1910). His film Rashomon (1951) won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival and an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, making it the first Japanese film to attract international acclaim.
Akira Kurosawa was born in Tokyo, Japan (1910). His film Rashomon (1951) won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival and an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, making it the first Japanese film to attract international acclaim.
March 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Happy birthday, Akira Kurosawa!
Akira Kurosawa was born in Tokyo, Japan (1910). His film Rashomon (1951) won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival and an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, making it the first Japanese film to attract international acclaim.
Akira Kurosawa was born in Tokyo, Japan (1910). His film Rashomon (1951) won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival and an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, making it the first Japanese film to attract international acclaim.
Sobering. A must read.
March 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Sobering. A must read.
Happy birthday, Theodor Geisel!
March 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Happy birthday, Theodor Geisel!
“Anything that is art . . . is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it's no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it's irritating.”—EDWARD GOREY
February 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“Anything that is art . . . is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it's no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it's irritating.”—EDWARD GOREY