On This Day

April 8, 2025

On this day, there were two tow trucks: one with "Let's Go Crazy" in purple with the Prince sign and another with puzzle pieces for Autism.

A dad was taken to a memory care home because he can no longer live in assisted living. A corrections officer leaned against a car, talking to her daughter and young granddaughter before she went in for the night shift; she’s been working at Metro Jail for 15 years. A family drove 16 hours from Michigan for spring break with “Sun, shrimp, and shorts. No more snow. “

Workers from Airbus stopped at the USS United States; one read about the ship in German. “Do y'all know what boat this is?” asked a guy on a Lime scooter, and two bikers stopped for a break on a 30-mile ride. Sisters watched the sunset at the ship. They moved from Michigan to Fairhope during COVID because Alabama wasn’t locked down. They are happy with their new start and work in mental health and hospice care–helping others through hard times because they have been there.

An Ernest Hemingway documentary ended with lines from The Snows of Kilimanjaro: “The rain so thick it seemed like flying through a waterfall, and then they were out and Compie turned his head and grinned and pointed and there, ahead, all he could see, as wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun, was the square top of Kilimanjaro. And then he knew that there was where he was going.”

All on this day.

(Photo by John Oldshue)