Galactic memory . . .
Wednesday, March 11, 2026. It's Odin's day . . . a mostly cloudy morning is forecasted to give way to a partly cloudy, windy afternoon in TulseyTown with wind chill in the 50's. Strong Northerlies are predicted througout the day, easy by evening.
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” – Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, whose birthday was today in 1952, Cambridge, England.
It is also the birthday of Rupert Murdoch who is 95 today. The publisher magnate was born in 1931, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
And the silent film star Dorothy Gish was born on this day in 1898, Massillon, Ohio.
On this day in 1811, in Ar-nold, Nottingham, textile workers staged the first major Luddite riot in England, breaking the machinery that was causing their displacement; the protest launched a movement that spread throughout the country. Luddites were not opposed to the use of machines per se (many were skilled operators in the textile industry); their issue was with organized manufacturers who were trying to circumvent standard labor practices of the time.
All we have is the present, and this is our practice in life, to keep returning to this moment even as it passes, just like looking out the train window, frame after frame. – Susan Moon, writing in “The Way of the Rails,” Tricycle.
You will remember
that time was like never and always:
We go where nothing is expected
and find everything waiting there. — Pablo Neruda, Time, in The Marginalian.
Why we are so “down” on each other. . .
Tuesday, March 10, 2026. It's Tiw's day … Strong Southerlies bring another warm low 80's afternoon to TulseyTown today. Slight rain chances are indicated for the afternoon and evening.
Remember: love is happiness, and nothing else brings joy. Choose to entertain no substitutes for love.
Clare Boothe Luce was born today in 1903 New York City. She was an American playwright, politician, and celebrity, noted for her satiric sense of humour and for her role in American politics.
Bix Beiderbecke was born in 1903, Davenport, Iowa.
Playwright and novelist David Rabe is 86 today. He was born in 1940 Dubuque, Iowa.
It has become clear that Trump had no plan in Iran other than to strike it. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
In Need to Know, David Rothkopf called out the madness of the fact world trade and global security is being shattered by a single man. “Not since Adolf Hitler blew his brains out in a bunker beneath the garden of the German Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945, have the lives of so many people around the world been so buffeted by the psychosis of a single man.”
Americans are way out front of other nations on the we-hate-our-compatriots scale. – Robert Reich, Why do we dislike each other?, on substack 3.10.26
The choice…regardless of where we fall on the left-right spectrum … isn't left/right but top/bottom. The real fight we face isn’t with each other but with those who lord over us by manipulating the political system to advance their ends at our expense. – Democratic Senate nominee from Texas James Talarico.
Sunday night, Stephen Colbert accepted the Walter Bernstein 2026 Writers Guild Award. He took CBS/Paramount to the woodshed, and let us in on 'the beautiful sound.'
Against indifference . .
Monday, March 9, 2026. It's the Moon's day . . . Strong Southerlies are to bring sunny skies, and upper 80's to TulseyTown this afternoon.
… between the words something hangs,
a quiet acknowledgment of everything
left nameless – like light that slips
between branches and fades
before it is seen.
– Krystle Herdy, The Lull of Tuesdays, Rattle#91, Spring 2026.
Juliette Binoche is 61 today. Widely regarded as one of film’s most-respected performers, she was born in 1964, Paris, France.
Country Joe McDonald, died Saturday at his home in Berkley, California. He was 84. His performance at Woodstock struck a chord so deep, it often obscured the variety and scope of his career.
The week ahead, started with Trump’s hat. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Heather Cox Richardson also noticed “the hat,” in Letters From An American, posted for today.
Finding courage in a dark time. – Robert Reich, “We Will Prevail,” Sunday Thought, on substack 3.8.26/
Before there was an incision, there was a long apprenticeship to surrender. Then there were “The Lines That Remain.” – Renée Loux , Scarred for Life, Commune.
Poems are spells against indifference. – Maria Popova, The Marginalian.