Today...

...the news was just too gloomy to contemplate so I spent time catching up on errands, laundry, groceries, and reading an outstanding new book called "Empire of the Summer Moon," by S. C. Gwynne (an excerpt here), a truly excellent work of American/military history about the collision of white settlers (read Texans) and Commanches on the Great Plains in the mid-19th Century. This one will surely be on the official YAME book list before too long.