Cassidy Hutchinson, and the January 6th House committee

Today's House testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson--who served in the White House as a top aide to Mark Meadows, Donald Trump's last chief of staff--was remarkable, riveting; it felt akin to the 1973 appearances by John Dean and Alexander Butterfield, in front of the Senate Watergate panel.

Poem by Frank O'Hara

A while ago I read the poem "Music," in the 1964 book Lunch Poems, by Frank O'Hara (City Lights Books).

The poem, the first in the book, is dated 1953.  Mr. O'Hara died in 1966, at age forty, two years after Lunch Poems was published.

There is a phrase in the poem--just part of a sentence--which has stayed with me; I have re-read it several times.

Mr. O'Hara wrote:

It's like a locomotive on the march, the season 

      of distress and clarity

D-Day

The image, below, is of the front page of New York's Daily Mirror, a tabloid paper, from D-Day, June 6, 1944 (seventy-eight years ago today). 

I've had the newspaper (along with other newspapers about D-Day) for decades--probably fifty-plus years.

At some point (as is perhaps evident, in the image), the front page separated from the rest of the paper.  Also, at some point, the page itself split in half, around the area of the fold.

I believe--I am not certain of this--that the group of newspapers was given to me by my maternal grandparents.