13: Snow Much Snow
1. “Nobody is illegal on stolen land.” Billie Eilish during her Grammy acceptance speech for Song of the Year (“Wildflower”).
2. I told Joe to put on a big log in the woodstove before we went to bed, and then we played THIS song.
3. In the case of the Led Zeppelin song, Big Log is a trucker’s driving log book. I had to look that up.
4. I call my resident cardinal at the bird feeder Clark Gable. His partner Scarlet comes to the feeder too, but he is more scarlet than her (see to Clark’s left).
5. ICE is giving winter a bad name.
6. But while we wrestle with unrest / our eyes adjust to darkness / Our compass is a pendulum / that swings back to justice… Read my poem The Takedown in its entirety HERE.
7. Thank you Bruce Springsteen! HIs Anti-ICE Song ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ is right up there with CSNY’s Four Dead in Ohio. It was the highest-selling song in the United States last week, even with it being available for just two days of the tracking period, debuting at No. 1 on Billboard’s Digital Song Sales chart
8. “Against smoke and rubber bullets / In the dawn’s early light / Citizens stood for justice / Their voices ringin’ through the night / And there were bloody footprints / Where mercy should have stood / And two dead, left to die on snow-filled streets / Alex Pretti and Renée Good” Listen HERE.
9. Maybe this (above) is partly why ICE taking 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos from his home hit me so hard. The picture is of my 17-year-old grandson when he was Liam’s age.
10. We still believe that truth / rises to the surface / that we can take down perpetrators / and love our neighbors… More HERE.
11. “We sleep, and at length awake to the still reality of a winter morning. The snow lies warm as cotton or down upon the window-sill; the broadened sash and frosted panes admit a dim and private light, which enhances the snug cheer within.” Thoreau
12. I call them frost fairies.
13. My friend Triona is an influencer and dancer. She makes me smile. See HERE.
_____________Thirteen Thursday
February 4th, 2026 3:00 pm
I’m enjoying the videos of ICE falling on ice. I’m glad that so many people are horrified by what’s been happening. There’s a little group that’s 3D printing whistles and sending them to Minnesota. They’re taking donations of filament to run the printers. And ICE can’t figure out where the whistles are coming from and are so upset that they keep showing up.
February 5th, 2026 7:09 pm
I like those frost fairies.