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April 03, 2021

Yeats on Writing.

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.

--W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)

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March 31, 2021

Peak Bloom: 3000 Yoshino cherry trees. 109 years.

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Tokyo Mayor Yukio Ozaki and his wife in Washington on March 27, 1912. On that day, the couple presented the City of Washington with 3000 Japanese Yoshino cherry trees.


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Peak bloom this year in DC—when approximately 70 percent or more of the blooms are open—was Sunday, March 28. The Yoshino blooms will hold up for another week.

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March 30, 2021

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“The Four Horsemen” from The Apocalypse (1498) by Albrecht Dürer

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