Two of the chicks (a month old now) left the hen house and explored the run today for the first time.  The white chick found a slug and ate it.

‎”Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” —Anton Chekhov

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Show me, don’t tell me.

“Rocky Graziano”
Stanley Kubrick

(as posted by one our authors on Facebook earlier today).

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“It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them…the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”
―Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Happy 86th birthday Harper Lee!

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“Son,” she said, and spit between her fingers, “what you’ve got in your britches is no news to me, and no concern of mine: hell, I’ve fooled around with nobody but boys since first grade. I never think like I’m a girl; you’ve got to remember that, or we can’t never be friends.”
—from Truman Capote’s OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS (1948). The tomboy character, Idabel Thompkins, which Capote based on friend Harper Lee, chides the main character Joel when he is embarrassed to undress in front of her.

Happy Birthday to Alabama-born [Nelle] Harper Lee (1926), author of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, which features a character Dill, based on Capote.

Great — now I’m hungry and I want to go home and read.

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Cupcakes de libros de Victoria’s Kitchen.

Today is the anniversary of the birth of lyricist E.Y. ‘Yip’ Harburg(1896; d.1981), who penned the words to ‘Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?’ (1932) and ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ (1939), among others…

“Cabin in the Sky” with Harold Arlen (1943)
“Bloomer Girl” with Harold Arlen (1944)
“April in Paris”
“It’s Only a Paper Moon”
“Lydia the Tattooed Lady”
“How Are Things in Glocca Morra?”
“Old Devil Moon”
“Then I’ll Be Tired of You”
“When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich”
“Down with Love”
“Free and Equal Blues”

An author (sorry, no names) was telling me about a sex toy shop in London called Coco de Mer.  While looking for the store on line, I found the palm tree of the same name (Lodoicea maldivica).  The seed of the tree is pictured above.  You gotta love the Brits.

“No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one”
—Robert Byrne, author of Standard Book of Pool and Billiards