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The weather is mostly sunny. There is a remote possibility of showers in the morning, followed by showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. peaks in the lower nineties. Rain is 70% likely.Friday evening: mostly overcast. Most likely to occur in the evening are showers and thunderstorms. lower 70s at its lowest. Rain is 70% likely.
A Quick Look at Today:
The hour-long public affairs radio program Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres begins just after 9 a.m. and features local newsmakers, celebrities, public health updates, and the odd surprise guest. Today, Pierre Tristam will not be providing analysis.View earlier podcasts here. Representative Sam Greco, Dave Sullivan, a member of the Palm Coast City Council, and County Commissioner Greg Hansen are on WNZF today at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live on Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube account.
At 12:15 p.m., the Flagler Democratic Office, located at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214 (above Cue Note) in City Marketplace, hosts the Friday Blue Forum, a discussion group run by local Democrats. Come and contribute your voice to national, state, and local politics.
Notably, one of our most intriguing elected leaders is Michael Martin. He is straightforward, honest, and unvarnished in the greatest sense of the word; he doesn’t engage in showmanship or grandstanding, and his candor is tempered by a streak of civility. He may be a little wordy, but who am I to speak? His public exposure is restricted because he is a member of the three-member East Flagler Mosquito Control District. He is also a candidate for the charter review committee of Palm Coast. In addition to the 200,000+ photos I’ve taken of him for FlaglerLive over the years, I also added two or three less public ones, like that walk around post-James Washington Square or the Normandy tour, to my Goggle photo database the other day. Google Photo is quite helpful. It’s eerie as well. Face-recognition surveillance is something that John Poindexter, one of George W. Bush’s spymasters, could only imagine in the early days following 9/11 as he plunged into East German-style domestic spying with Total Information Awareness. When the pinko media got hold of them, Poindexter and TIA were abandoned, but TIA’s descendants—including Google Photo—are now widely used. Michael Martin’s photo goes up, and Google’s superb matching algorithm goes down, bringing back every photo of Michael Martin that I have ever taken. Among them is this photo I shot of an Italian laborer at Ellis Island’s museum in 2019 as part of a collage of 12 pictures of immigrants. Which raises the question: is Ellis Island where Michael’s ancestor is immortalized? I haven’t had time to give him a call to ask. However, I will. It’s never a bad day to remember what immigrants mean to us: we all have our Mayflowers and Ellis Island forebears, even if they were never honored or visited. Put another way, that Italian worker is unquestionably Michael’s ancestor, even if he wasn’t, at least if Michael believes he is an American, which I’m sure he is, as we all do.
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Imagine: a man in the prehistoric past holds up a crude tool in his hand—possibly a brand, a daub, or a broom—that is containing pigment. He sticks the amazing mental image to a rock or wall. The birth of art is actually and symbolically completed in that moment. Aside from his amazing creation, that man is nearly hard to remember, but he is ingrained in our race memory and our human lineage. He is preliterate and rudimentary by today’s high standards, and he has no distinguishing characteristics beyond the fact that he draws. And his impact on future generations is immeasurable; he has a significant impact on those of us who follow him for millennia. Because every story in the entire universe starts the instant he leaves his mark. His hand is the source of all literature.
from The Columbia History of Literature’s introduction (1988).
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