milk and honey

We’ve long known that Donald Trump is a de facto criminal. Today, it’s de jure, too.
That matters for the country’s foundational principles. But will it matter to the incredibly thin slice of undecided voters in the swing states?

Tagging this “theater” hoping others will chime in. I’ve not studied contemporary theater exhaustively (an understatement!). But, in my uninformed opinion, Tom Stoppard is the great playwright writing in English in the last 50 years, and Arcadia is his masterpiece. Care to discuss/dispute? 🎭

Dallas got hit by 80 mph winds yesterday. Not surprisingly, lots of homes, ~630,000, lost power, ours included. But almost exactly 12 hours later, our lights were back on. I think that’s an impressive response. Thank you to the men and women who did that!

The Dallas Arboretum

Writing is solving one problem and then the next. It’s like building a house. Once you start, you have to finish… If you hired an architect and a year later you said, “What happened?” And he said, ‘I don’t know, I was blocked.’ You’d say, ‘What?!’

Maybe not like bookends (per Paul Simon). Still, 54 years of friendship in this photo.

Micro.blog seems to be amazingly promising in creating an online “third place,” where a community can flourish. But an IRL third place is crucial. Here’s a good article on how that can work (or not).