New poem for this July 4th weekend, which we are having a hard time celebrating

Don't Fear Your Neighborhood Gray Fox (Unless You're a Chicken) You'll be lucky to even see the crafty canid.

Even if you’ve never seen a gray fox, chances are you’ve heard one.

You may have mistaken its harsh, guttural call for the caw of a crow or some other noisy bird. www.texasmonthly.com/travel/dont-...

When a puzzle is really difficult, we ask for Aoife‘s help.

a look at the s&p following the election of recent us presidents:

The Stock Market Was One of Trump’s Favorite Talking Points. Not Lately. Since his inauguration last month, President Trump has been relatively muted about the stock market. Investors are getting worried about an impending sell-off.

Bad news / Good news

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trying to figure out a way around.

This isn’t a coincidence.

Paging Dr (Senator) Cassidy for your comment.

Blue skies on Bluesky (Hunter Mountain)

The reading police

I’m thrilled to have a new poem in the latest edition of The Millbrook Independent, inspired by the humble spoon. themillbrookindependent.com?p=5049

The Future Forest: The Appalachians face multiple threats. Scientists are working to boost their adaptability. The Appalachian landscape is a diverse, steadfast refuge for wildlife, but the world around it is changing. Scientists are researching how to make these woods more adaptable—and resilient—than ever.

So honored to do a series of forest-themed illustrations for @nature.org. Check them out online and in print!

www.nature.org/en-us/magazi...

Oil?

Aoife demonstrating the sleeping pike.

More of this, please. (From this past Saturday.)

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

Rewriting The NY Times

How is this helpful?

Wall Street falls following Trump's tariffs, but not as badly as feared in the morning Worries about President Trump’s tariffs are hurting U.S. stocks as financial markets worldwide drop on concerns about a potential trade war.

Why the but? Trump announced tariffs, stocks fell significantly. Is it because business writers, like business types generally, are in the tank for Trump? apnews.com/article/stoc...

New addition to the family! Aoife (pronounced EE-fuh). She’s about a year and a half old, so tiny and curious. We brought her home today from ARF in Beacon.

Opinion | Don’t Believe Him (Gift Article) Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

Today's @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social column is well worth reading. "Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president." @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

Good to see you, Hamish!

Affinity is definitely the wrong word.

It wasn’t just financial analysts playing this game of “he won’t really do the things he says he’s going to do.”

Gorgeous, cold day at Hunter Mountain. They’ve made it so easy to avoid the crowd!

Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth

The Thing Is BY ELLEN BASS to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you down like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

One of my absolute favourites.

Sickening

Elon Musk • Z+ Empfehlung: Ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß Elon Musk streckt den rechten Arm, und alle springen drüber. Willkommen im neuen Aufmerksamkeitsregime.

www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...

It might have been helpful if The Times had had this take on America before the election. Though probably not.