THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our fossils, radioactive at that.”

— Lewis Thomas

BIRTHDAYS:

1678 Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Four Seasons: Spring (La Primavera)

1782 Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist and writer (Swiss Family Robinson).

1904 George Gamow, Ukrainian-born American nuclear physicist and writer.

MISCELLANEOUS:

INTERESTING. Iran Uprising Projection

BEFORE THE NEXT LOCK DOWN (INCLUDING VIOLATING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE), THE AUTHORITIES SHOULD BE OBLIGATED TO READ THE FOLLOWING: