Imagine . . .
Thursday, October 9, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . and the weatherfeather indicates a lovely Fall day for TulseyTown. Moderate Southeasterlies, partly cloudy skies and low 80's.
“Silence is like an ocean, speech is like a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk to the river, listen to the ocean.” – attributed to Rumi
An economy based on the impossibility of ever expanding growth leads us into nightmare scenarios...I want to live in a society where the currency of exchange is gratitude and the infinitely renewable resource of kindness, which multiplies every time it is shared rather than depreciating with use…. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Rich in Good Will,” Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 10.9025
Today is the birthdate of John Lennon, born in Liverpool, England, in 1940.
Jackson Browne is 77 today. He was born in 1948, Heidelberg, Germany.
And it's the 61st birthday of filmmaker and screenwriter Guillermo del Toro, born in 1964 Guadalajara, Mexico.
Would CBS allow Edward R. Murrow's air time editorials? – Robert Reich doesn't think so. Online 10.9.25
No fly zone . . .
Wednesday, October 8, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . and forecasts for TulseyTown indicate moderate Northerlies becoming light as clouds begin to part later. Mid 70's. Low 80's tomorrow as this taste of Fall yields to a warming toward a hot weekend and a warm week before returning.
Matt Damon is 55 today. The Academy Award laureate, actor, screenwriter, and producer was born in 1970, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Science fiction writer Frank Herbert (Dune) was born on this date in 1920 Tacoma, Washington.
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to another Cal Berkeley professor and two other internationalists.
The power being wielded by unelected officials in the Trump administration echoes the conditions of the U.S. government a century ago which generated the stock market crash and the Great Depression. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Flying to the end of the shutdown. A credible pundit's prediction coming true. – Robert Reich, online today.
Kite Without a String
A poem at its least can be
a song of praise for its contravention
an ode – to science, mathematics, symbols,
categories, compartmentalism.
But, a poem is a kite without a string –
flying above all that would insist
on extending fear from some wherever
to some other place claiming freedom.
A kite without a string
is a conversation about Truth
trusting no one but the wind.
– jab
Swans in any season are not Bohr-ing
Tuesday, October 7, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate moderate Northerlies and much cooler conditions today and tomorrow. Today, mostly cloudy and mid 70's.
Don’t be afraid of what you are feeling. You don't have to act on it. Open to what is.
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 has been awarded to three U.S. university based professors.
Speaking of Nobel physics … today is the birth date of Niels Bohr. The Nobel Prize laureate physicist was born in 1855 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Today is the birthday of the prolific naturalist, novelist poet, and essayist Diane Ackerman who turns 77 today. The author of A Natural History of the Senses and The Zookeeper's Wife among many – as in many others – was born in 1948 Waukegan, Illinois
Sherman Alexie is 59 today. The Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker was born on the Spokane Indian Reservation in 1966 Wellpinit, Washington,
It's also the birthday of Yo-Yo Ma. The celebrated French-born American cellist turns 70 today. He was born in1955, Paris, France.
If you didn’t already know:
Trump doesn’t like data. He eschews facts. He wants investors and consumers — and everyone else — to be in the dark, because then he can lie without fear of factual contradiction. He can create even more of a fantasy world. He can pretend that he’s been wildly successful even when he’s been a terrible failure. – Robert Reich, Turning Out the Lights, online 10.7.25
Trump isn't alone in his distaste of facts, data, and reality. His on again/off again bro-pal Vladimir Putin is 73 today. The Russian president was born in 1952, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now St. Petersburg), Russia.
What Washington needs is four feet of snow and two weeks of minus-40 lows and let the gentleman sit in his Evil Office and think these things through more clearly. – Garrison Keillor, The Perils of a Summer September, online 10.3.25.
The Swan of any season . . .