The Last Word of a Bluebird, poem by Robert Frost:

 

The Last Word of a Bluebird

Poem by Robert Frost.
 
As I went out a Crow
In a low voice said, “Oh,
I was looking for you.
How do you do?
I just came to tell you
To tell Lesley (will you?)
That her little Bluebird
Wanted me to bring word
That the north wind last night
That made the stars bright
And made ice on the trough
Almost made him cough
His tail feathers off.
He just had to fly!
But he sent her Good-by,
And said to be good,
And wear her red hood,
And look for skunk tracks
In the snow with an ax –
And do everything!
And perhaps in the spring
He would come back and sing.”
 

Recommended reading:
 

Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays

 
Video by Jack Kost
2025
 
Music credit:
 
Cold October – Soft Piano Music
by Clavier-Music
From Pixabay
 
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Patricia Highsmith, on writing:

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think:
'What if ... What if ...'
Thus, my imagination can move from the likely,
which everyone can think of,
to the unlikely-but-possible,
my preferred plot.

- Patricia Highsmith

Born on this day – Else Heller:

Else Heller

Actress

February 4, 1884 – February 12, 1951

Credits:

Asphalt (1929); Bookkeeper Kremke (1930); Cyankali (1930); Der Märtyrer seines Herzens (1918); Der Müller und sein Kind (1911); Die letzte Kompagnie (1930); Fräulein Else (1929); Kaiser Josef II. (1912); Liebe (1927); Man schenkt sich Rosen, wenn man verliebt ist (1930); Tropennächte (1931); Westfront 1918 (1930).

Born on this day – Gwili Andre:

Gwili Andre

Actress

Model

February 4, 1907 – February 5, 1959

Credits:

A Woman's Face (1941); Meet the Boy Friend (1937); No Other Woman (1933); Roar of the Dragon (1932); Secrets of the French Police (1932); The Falcon's Brother (1942); The Girl Said No (1937).

Born on this day – James Craig:

James Craig

Actor

February 4, 1912 - June 27, 1985

Credits:

100 Years of Horror (1996); A Lady Without Passport (1950); A Woman Is the Judge (1939); Appointment in Tokyo (1945); Arizona Bushwhackers (1968); Behind Prison Gates (1939); Bigfoot (1970); Black Friday (1940); Blind Alley (1939); Body of the Prey (1967); Born to the West (1937); Boys' Ranch (1946); Broken Arrow (1957); Cafe Hostess (1940); Chevron Theatre (1953); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2010); Code Two (1953); Colgate Theatre (1958); College Swing (1938); Custer (1967); Dangerous Partners (1945); Daniel Boone (1967); Dark Delusion (1947); Death Valley Days (1960); Doomsday Machine (1976); Drums in the Deep South (1951); Enemy Agent (1940); Flying G-Men (1939); Fort Utah (1967); Fort Vengeance (1953); Four Fast Guns (1960); Freedom Comes High (1943); Friendly Enemies (1942); Gentle Annie (1944); Ghost Diver (1957); Good Girls Go to Paris (1939); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hostile Guns (1967); Hurricane Smith (1952); If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (1968); I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now (1940); Kismet (1944); Kitty Foyle (1940); Konga, the Wild Stallion (1939); Last of the Desperados (1955); Law and Order (1940); Little Mister Jim (1946); Lost Angel (1943); Man or Gun (1958); Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944); Massacre (1956); Missing Daughters (1939); Naked in the Sun (1957); North of Shanghai (1939); Northwest Rangers (1942); Northwest Stampede (1948); Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939); Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945); Outside These Walls (1939); Overland with Kit Carson (1939); Pest from the West (1939); Picture People No. 1: Stars in Defense (1941); Picture People No. 2: Hollywood Sports (1941); Pride of the West (1938); Romance of the Redwoods (1939); Scandal Sheet (1939); Science Fiction Theatre (1955); Scorching Fury (1952); Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1942); Seven Sinners (1940); She Went to the Races (1945); Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957); Side Street (1949); Skinny the Moocher (1939); Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949); Sophie Lang Goes West (1937); South to Karanga (1940); Static in the Attic (1939); Studio 57 (1954–1955); Swing Shift Maisie (1943); Tales of Wells Fargo (1962); Taming of the West (1939); The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (1972); The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938); The Buccaneer (1938); The Cyclops (1957); The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941); The Devil's Brigade (1968); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Heavenly Body (1944); The House Across the Bay (1940); The Human Comedy (1943); The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939); The Man from Texas (1948); The Man They Could Not Hang (1939); The Millionaire (1956); The Omaha Trail (1942); The Persuader (1957); The Strip (1951); The Tormentors (1971); The Virginian (1968); The Women of Pitcairn Island (1956); This Way Please (1937); Thunder Trail (1937); Trouble Finds Andy Clyde (1939); Twenty Years After (1944); Two-Fisted Rangers (1939); Unexpected Uncle (1941); Valley of the Sun (1942); While the City Sleeps (1956); Winners of the West (1940); Zanzibar (1940).

Born on this day – Ida Lupino:

Ida Lupino

Actress

Singer

Director

Writer

Producer

February 4, 1918 – August 3, 1995

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1959); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960–1961); Alias Smith and Jones (1972); Anything Goes (1936); Artist and Models (1937); Barnaby Jones (1974); Batman (1968); Beware, My Lovely (1952); Bewitched (1965); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966); Bonanza (1959); Bracken's World (1970); Breaking Point (1963); Burke's Law (1963–1964); Charlie's Angels (1977); Climax! (1956); Columbo (1972–1974); Come On, Marines! (1934); Daniel Boone (1967); Dante (1960); Deadhead Miles (1972); Death Valley Days (1960); Deep Valley (1947); Devotion (1946); Dr. Kildare (1964); Dundee and the Culhane (1967); Ellery Queen (1975); Escape Me Never (1947); Family Affair (1969–1970); Female Artillery (1973); Fight for Your Lady (1937); Forever and a Day (1943); Four Star Playhouse (1953–1956); General Electric Theater (1960–1962); Gilligan's Island (1964–1966); Hard, Fast and Beautiful! (1951); Have Gun - Will Travel (1959–1961); Her First Affaire (1932); High Finance (1933); High Sierra (1940); Hollywood Canteen (1944); Honey West (1965); Hong Kong (1960); Hotel de Paree (1959–1960); I Lived with You (1933); I Love a Mystery (1973); In Our Time (1944); Insight (1971); It Takes a Thief (1968); Jennifer (1953); Judd for the Defense (1968); Junior Bonner (1972); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963–1964); Ladies in Retirement (1941); Let's Get Married (1937); Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942); Lust for Gold (1949); Lux Playhouse (1959); Medical Center (1972); Mod Squad (1969); Money for Speed (1933); Moontide (1942); Mr. Adams and Eve (1957–1958); Mr. Novak (1963–1965); My Boys Are Good Boys (1979); Nanny and the Professor (1971); Never Fear (1950); Not Wanted (1949); On Dangerous Ground (1951); On the Loose (1951); One Rainy Afternoon (1936); Out of the Fog (1941); Outrage (1950); Paris in Spring (1935); Peter Ibbetson (1935); Pillow to Post (1945); Police Woman (1975); Prince of Arcadia (1933); Private Hell 36 (1954); Ready for Love (1934); Road House (1948); Sam Benedict (1962–1963); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Sea Devils (1937); Search for Beauty (1934); Smart Girl (1935); Strange Intruder (1956); Switch (1975); Tate (1960); Teenage Idol (1958); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943); The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939); The Big Knife (1955); The Bigamist (1953); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1973); The Devil's Rain (1975); The Donna Reed Show (1959); The Food of the Gods (1976); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Fugitive (1963–1964); The Gay Desperado (1936); The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968); The Ghost Camera (1933); The Green Peacock (1958); The Hard Way (1943); The Hitch-Hiker (1953); The Investigators (1961); The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (1956); The Lady and the Mob (1939); The Letters (1973); The Light That Failed (1939); The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939); The Love Race (1931); The Man I Love (1946); The Manhunter (1974); The Name of the Game (1969); The Outcasts (1969); The Rifleman (1961); The Rogues (1964–1965); The Sea Wolf (1941); The Strangers in 7A (1972); The Streets of San Francisco (1974); The Trouble with Angels (1966); The Twilight Zone (1959–1964); The Untouchables (1962–1963); The Virginian (1963–1965); The Wild Wild West (1966); They Drive by Night (1940); Thriller (1961–1962); Virginian (1966); While the City Sleeps (1956); Woman in Hiding (1950); Women in Chains (1972); Women's Prison (1955); Yours for the Asking (1936); Zane Grey Theatre (1956).

Born on this day – Betty Friedan:

 

Betty Friedan

Writer

Actress

February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006

Credits:

Books:

Beyond Gender (1997); It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement (1976); Life So Far (2000); The Feminine Mystique (1963); The Fountain of Age (1993); The Second Stage (1981).

Movies and television:

A Century of Women (1994); American Experience (2014); Beatles '64 (2024); Before Stonewall (1984); Being Mary Tyler Moore (2023); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Camera Three (1968); Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004); Debunked (2022); Donahue (1972); Ex Libris (1990); Femme d'aujourd'hui (1965–1982); Firing Line (1971); Five Day Bicycle Race (2011); Gloria: In Her Own Words (2011); Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (2000); Headliners & Legends (1998); History 101 (2020); Independent Lens (2005); Intimate Portrait (1999); Makers: Women Who Make America (2013); Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm (2007); Quelques féministes américaines (1977); Superpowered: The DC Story (2023); Take Thirty (1984); The David Frost Show (1971); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Eighties (2016); The First Measured Century (2000); The Irv Kupcinet Show (1971); The Last Party (1993); The Many Lives of Martha Stewart (2024); The Merv Griffin Show (1963); The Mike Douglas Show (1965–1976); The Seventies (2015); The Sixties (2014); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963); Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg (1996); Tiny Shoulders, Rethinking Barbie (2018); Town Bloody Hall (1979); Women's Day: The Making of a Bill (1998); Year of the Woman (1973).