Chester

Chester was there at the station on time.
He never boarded or she never came.

Bilbo Baggins

at eleventy-plus, in exile from Bag End and settled in Rivendell

Blue Blight

And who can remember
the Blue Blight of Aught Eight
and what it did to the hybrid popcorn crop?

knapped adze

This knapped adze is Neolithic Fertile Crescent. It was more common to carve progeny doppelgangers into one's tools than one might think.

Hermes

The harlots and thieves were in need of someone who could look after them. Hermes was their man. The shepherds and drifters, the actors and grifters - they were in need as well. Most all of them were on their way to someplace else, so couldn't be waylaid for long, but they all wanted something.. absolution, extra umph, a witness..

Hermes was on top of it. After all, he was Messenger of the Gods. Wings on his heels, the whole nine yards. Those came in handy early on, rustling cattle owned by his bother, Apollo. The Gods overlooked transgressions like that back then. Fact is, they needed fleet feet. They also needed someone who couldn't abide boundaries, as he'd have to pass in and out of the underworld.

Hermes fit the bill all around for gods and gypsies alike.

Methuselah

Methuselah lived to 969.
Hidden Missives posts a thousand today.

2009 DD45

A rock three school buses across came within a couple satellite orbits of our world today. Might've wiped us out, but it looked down and saw we were already about wiped out, so it kept on going.

tender

tending waning fire near dawn

Callistonian Emissary

Jovian Moonite Begins Goodwill Whirlwind Tour Seeks Moratorium On Earth Colonization of Callisto