Letters From Inside the Whale
@lasleyg.bsky.social
Author, teacher of film, literature, and American Studies
She’s waving. Wave back when morning comes with the sun.
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
She’s waving. Wave back when morning comes with the sun.
Sunlight warms a translucent petal at Monet’s garden in Giverny. Peace and good will to all.
September 30, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Sunlight warms a translucent petal at Monet’s garden in Giverny. Peace and good will to all.
"We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past--Jefferson and Paine, Emerson and Thoreau--while we silence the rebels of the present." Henry Steele Commager, FREEDOM, LOYALTY, DISSENT
July 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past--Jefferson and Paine, Emerson and Thoreau--while we silence the rebels of the present." Henry Steele Commager, FREEDOM, LOYALTY, DISSENT
“Everything the President does is to benefit the American people…”
White House communications director Steven Cheung
Me: which American people?
White House communications director Steven Cheung
Me: which American people?
June 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
“Everything the President does is to benefit the American people…”
White House communications director Steven Cheung
Me: which American people?
White House communications director Steven Cheung
Me: which American people?
More of "Funny/Not Funny," given the consequences of a point, taken.
Mexico Renames the Liberty Bell the TACO Bell open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Mexico Renames the Liberty Bell the TACO Bell open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Mexico Renames the Liberty Bell the TACO Bell
President Claudia Sheinbaum gave Donald J. Trump “full credit” for the name change.
open.substack.com
June 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
More of "Funny/Not Funny," given the consequences of a point, taken.
Mexico Renames the Liberty Bell the TACO Bell open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Mexico Renames the Liberty Bell the TACO Bell open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
A retired Navy veteran speaks up for his fellow patriots. Thank you, Politics Girl, and Ret. US Naval Commander Bobby R. Jones.
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Everyone Gets Left Behind: A Conversation with Commander Bobby R. Jones
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
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April 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A retired Navy veteran speaks up for his fellow patriots. Thank you, Politics Girl, and Ret. US Naval Commander Bobby R. Jones.
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“…when, in a popular government, there is a suspension of the laws, (this can proceed only from the corruption of the republic), the state is certainly undone.”
Montesquieu, 1748
THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS
Montesquieu, 1748
THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS
April 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“…when, in a popular government, there is a suspension of the laws, (this can proceed only from the corruption of the republic), the state is certainly undone.”
Montesquieu, 1748
THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS
Montesquieu, 1748
THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS
Remember when the political call was for “jobs jobs jobs”? What will the next jobs report look like, after Biden’s every report was # of jobs created, lower unemployment, lower crime rates?
April 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Remember when the political call was for “jobs jobs jobs”? What will the next jobs report look like, after Biden’s every report was # of jobs created, lower unemployment, lower crime rates?
In the news today, had to respond with more of the story of Ira Hayes as I shared in correspondence from here in the 21st c with my dad, the boy at war in the Pacific in 1944-45. There’s always more to a true war story.
March 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
In the news today, had to respond with more of the story of Ira Hayes as I shared in correspondence from here in the 21st c with my dad, the boy at war in the Pacific in 1944-45. There’s always more to a true war story.
By the way, Duke beat Carolina again for the trifecta. Just sayin’
March 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
By the way, Duke beat Carolina again for the trifecta. Just sayin’
Something’s going on with Threads. My feed is largely MAGA. Not my jam.
March 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Something’s going on with Threads. My feed is largely MAGA. Not my jam.
"...our choices grow out of the ideas, the beliefs, the values, the dreams of the people. It is not so much the powerful leaders that determine our destiny as the much more powerful influence of the combined voice of the people themselves."
- Eleanor Roosevelt LET'S SPEAK UP, PEOPLE!
- Eleanor Roosevelt LET'S SPEAK UP, PEOPLE!
February 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"...our choices grow out of the ideas, the beliefs, the values, the dreams of the people. It is not so much the powerful leaders that determine our destiny as the much more powerful influence of the combined voice of the people themselves."
- Eleanor Roosevelt LET'S SPEAK UP, PEOPLE!
- Eleanor Roosevelt LET'S SPEAK UP, PEOPLE!
Why do I feel like I’m living under a governing principle that no longer cares for or about the people who are this nation?
February 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Why do I feel like I’m living under a governing principle that no longer cares for or about the people who are this nation?
Suspecting Zuckerberg set me up, without my asking, to “follow”Thing 1 and Thing 2 in the White House. And Musk sends me emails daily hawking wacky products. Email also broadly hacked. Unwanted.
January 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Suspecting Zuckerberg set me up, without my asking, to “follow”Thing 1 and Thing 2 in the White House. And Musk sends me emails daily hawking wacky products. Email also broadly hacked. Unwanted.
January 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Suspecting Zuckerberg set me up, without my asking, to “follow”Thing 1 and Thing 2 in the White House. And Musk sends me emails daily hawking wacky products. Email also broadly hacked. Unwanted.
Make love not war. Sixties chant still in working order.
January 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Make love not war. Sixties chant still in working order.
“We make our own history…the course of history is directed by the choices we make and our choices grow out of the ideas, the beliefs, the values, the dreams of the people.
January 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
“We make our own history…the course of history is directed by the choices we make and our choices grow out of the ideas, the beliefs, the values, the dreams of the people.
LETTERS FROM INSIDE THE WHALE: RESUMING THE CONVERSATION MY FATHER AND I NEVER HAD…ABOUT HIS WAR now available to readers who believe History matters and that there’s always more to a true war story. Also true, you can speak to the dead, and the dead will respond, in memory.
December 31, 2024 at 11:37 PM
LETTERS FROM INSIDE THE WHALE: RESUMING THE CONVERSATION MY FATHER AND I NEVER HAD…ABOUT HIS WAR now available to readers who believe History matters and that there’s always more to a true war story. Also true, you can speak to the dead, and the dead will respond, in memory.
Jimmy Carter - model of leadership, grace, humility, and service. I love stories told by my friend Hamilton Jordan, Carter’s Chief of Staff, about the music man, family man, giver of life and dignity to people in need of a friend. May he rest in peace. And may leaders to come follow his example.
December 30, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Jimmy Carter - model of leadership, grace, humility, and service. I love stories told by my friend Hamilton Jordan, Carter’s Chief of Staff, about the music man, family man, giver of life and dignity to people in need of a friend. May he rest in peace. And may leaders to come follow his example.
“But I think that the most likely reason of all/May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.” - Dr Seuss diagnoses the Grinch. 4 year old grandson on what the heart’s for, didn’t skip a beat: “love.” Hear that, Santa?
December 21, 2024 at 12:43 PM
“But I think that the most likely reason of all/May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.” - Dr Seuss diagnoses the Grinch. 4 year old grandson on what the heart’s for, didn’t skip a beat: “love.” Hear that, Santa?
History matters. Truth matters. Give books for Christmas and Hannukah.
"We are losing the people who can tell us in first person what happened. And it’s a shame, because when we lose the historical memory, we lose ourselves."
— Rita Magnani, National Association of Italian Partisans
"We are losing the people who can tell us in first person what happened. And it’s a shame, because when we lose the historical memory, we lose ourselves."
— Rita Magnani, National Association of Italian Partisans
December 16, 2024 at 1:36 PM
History matters. Truth matters. Give books for Christmas and Hannukah.
"We are losing the people who can tell us in first person what happened. And it’s a shame, because when we lose the historical memory, we lose ourselves."
— Rita Magnani, National Association of Italian Partisans
"We are losing the people who can tell us in first person what happened. And it’s a shame, because when we lose the historical memory, we lose ourselves."
— Rita Magnani, National Association of Italian Partisans
bsky.app
December 12, 2024 at 7:52 PM
This from James Baldwin: “…hatred never failed to destroy the one who hated…I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense that once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
Living inside hate must be a miserable place to be.
Living inside hate must be a miserable place to be.
December 12, 2024 at 7:51 PM
This from James Baldwin: “…hatred never failed to destroy the one who hated…I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense that once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
Living inside hate must be a miserable place to be.
Living inside hate must be a miserable place to be.