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So glad you have signed up to receive the For Random Learning Comes Newsletter! This is the one hundredth edition.
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I will only briefly introduce this newsletter since all my news is in the blogpost In Commemoration of Birthdays and Executions which comes first below.
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Hope you have had a lovely series of holidays in the past few weeks and that your lives are full of fun and excitement.
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This is the dreaded newsletter number 100. The event has caught me rather flat-footed with not enough time during the week to do anything special for the occasion. But let me get back to you on it! I do intend some changes and you will be the first to know!
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So Close and Yet So Far
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This essay discusses the Semiquincentennial celebration and compares it with Fourths of Years gone by.
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Drawing
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A poem on redistricting, the drawing of new districts to serve the ruling party's political purposes, with the blessing of the Supreme Court and with enthusiasm unchecked by either the people's will nor the State's Constitutional provisions.
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Attempt
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A poem describing the swirling emotions on and offline provoked by the attempted assassination of President Trump at the dinner for the press. Caveat: I do not doubt the attempt on his life was real. P.S. The photo is an attempt at beauty.
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Approaching May 1st, 2026, Anniversary of The Great Fire, Jacksonville, FL
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A poem about a very dry spring in Florida which calls to mind the terrible fire which consumed Jacksonville early in the 20th century.
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Smiles
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This poem analyzes the loss of reputation of the US in the eyes of its closest allies, and the attitude it projects, about that loss.
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