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Weather: Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Monday Night: Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
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Today at a Glance:
The three-member East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board meets at 10 a.m. at District Headquarters, 210 Airport Executive Drive, Palm Coast. Agendas are available here. District staff, commissioners and email addresses are here. The meetings are open to the public.
The Flagler County Commission meets at 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. Access meeting agendas and materials here. The five county commissioners and their email addresses are listed here.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
Byblos: It finally arrived, the second volume of the Library of America’s edition of Hemingway’s works, this one a nicely fattish volume (LOA’s tomes have been slimming down in recent years, an unfortunate break from when we could get 1,500-pagers on Jefferson and Franklin and Parkman and Adams. 700-pagers don’t project literary grandeur so much as a touch of marketing greed, which is unlike the Library). It includes Men Without Women, A Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon, and some letters from 1927 to 1932, the period covered in the volume. It will have me read Farewell a third time, but I’m not sure about Death. “Its national sport is not a game but a ritual of danger,” Barbara Tuchman wrote of Spain’s bloodlust affection for bullfighting, and Hemingway was simply too fond of that ritual for my taste, too fond of the fabrications around it–the metaphors for courage and cowardice, when I can’t help seeing just plain animal cruelty and one-sided brutality not much different from cock-fighting or similar aberrations. I’ll stick to Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley. They’re tragic enough, though Neil King Jr. in his American Ramble, the very good memoir of his walk from Washington D.C. to New York City in the nearly immediate aftermath of his cancer and the immediate aftermath of Covid, one of the characters he came across had described someone by the marginal note that someone had left on a page of Farewell to Arms, describing Hemingway: “As charming as a bottle of dead flies.” There was a time when Boston police banned Scribner’s Magazine for carrying excerpts of Farewell, but why? I cannot think of erotic passages in the book, even though I first read it in high school, when that sort of thing sticks in the memory. On the other hand, why, why, does Hemingway have Henry call Othello a n—? It is the only explicit slur in the book, as I recall (from ready notes from my last reading), but why even that? I do like this: “You are wise.” “No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
—P.T.
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August 2025
East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board Meeting
Flagler County Commission Evening Meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Food Truck Tuesday
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Annual Flagler Tiger Bay Club Wine Tasting Meet & Greet
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
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“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?”
“Of course. Who said it?”
“I don’t know.”
“He was probably a coward,” she said. “He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he’s intelligent. He simply doesn’t mention them.”
–From Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (1929).
Pogo says
@And so it goes
… from time to time — except when it doesn’t.
Jim says
Israel will regret all the destruction and death that has occurred in Gaza. There is no question that Hamas is evil and a terrorist actor. What they did on October 7, 2023 was horrendous and I completely understand that Israel would want to eliminate every last remnant of that group.
But over 60,000 people have died to date. And, per the cartoon, the number of journalists killed is almost beyond comprehension. And, right now, Gazan’s are starving to death and living in tents (if they’re lucky) in temperatures soaring to 120F.
Does anyone believe Israel has eliminated Hamas? Is there any indication that the end of this “war” is in sight? Is there anyone out there who doesn’t fully expect that when this finally does end, what Israel has done a great job of is creating a massive amount of angry Palestinians who will be looking for vengeance in the future. There is no path to peace.
Finally, Israel has given up any claim to being on the right side of this conflict. You don’t get to kill massively like they have done and claim any moral high ground. As far as I’m concerned, what Israel has done in Gaza is just slightly above what Putin has done in Ukraine. The only difference is that at least Israel can say they were provoked.
And for those who think criticizing Israel is “anti-Semitic”, you go ahead and take comfort in your ignorance. Murder and torture should be called out no matter who is doing it. I’m going to have a much lessor opinion of Israel from now on.