June 13

The SDE neglected to post yesterday, the 12th of June, due to unforeseen events such as too busy. Had the SDE posted, it would have noted the anniversary of the US Supreme Court decision in Loving v Virginia (1967) which made state laws prohibiting interracial marriage illegal. Mildred Loving died last year. She made a statement in 2007 expressing her support for same-sex marriage. Her husband died in a car accident in 1975. Fascinating story. Wikipedia says a movie had been made about their life but that Mildred had said very little of it was true.

June 12, 1929 was the birthday of Anne Frank.

Since today is the 13th, we will move on to current events. Actually, it's the 14th since I'm once again waiting up for the RT (resident teenager).

Medgar Evans was assasinated this day in 1963.

It's the birth anniversary of William Butler Yeats (1865-Jan. 28, 1939)


Leda and the Swan

by W. B. Yeats
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.
How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?
A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
Being so caught up,
So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?