The time for clowns . . .
Friday, December 12, 2025. It's Freya's day . . . TulsyTown forecasts indicate a day of sunny skies with moderate, cooling Northerlies and low 50's.
When you run out of time, is it time to stop counting?
Joyce Vance has an invitation for you to join her in a cultural contribution (free). It's about baking cookies. On Saturday “We Bake.”
What’s really at stake in the fight between Netflix and Paramount for Warner Bros Discovery? – Robert Reich, online,12.12.25
Trump’s advisors have sent him off on a tour to convince Americans the administration shares their concerns about the economy. It's not going well. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Today is the birth date of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. He was born in 1863, Löten, Norway.
French novelist Gustave Flaubert was born today in 1821, Rouen, France.
And, Frank Sinatra was born on this day in 1915 Hoboken, New Jersey.
Accolades, doubts, and errors – He did it all along his way.
God's eyelashes . . .
Thursday, December 11, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . and the forecasts indicate a much warmer day for TulseyTown – into the mid 60's – with moderate to strong Southerlies and sunny skies. Turning cooler tomorrow.
Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art. – Joanna Macy, “Come from Gratitude,” in “Personal Guidelines for the Great Turning.”
Today is Human Rights Day in honor of the day in 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly announced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born on this date in 1918 Kislovodsk, Russia.
The absence of proof is not proof of absence. Suffering has historically been equated with corporeality. The moral puzzles of the 21st century are pushing against that assumption: what if experience, awareness or distress could exist without the warmth and flesh of a body? How should we engage entities whose pain we cannot detect with the senses we are built to trust? – Conor Purcell, “Can Machines Suffer?” in Aeon, 12.11.25
Contrary to his doctor's advice to find ways to slow down, Robert Reich is going out of his way today to thank us for our attentive activism.
At the top of my list of faves ( in spite of this note at the bottom of the page) poet and novelist Jim Harrison was born today in 1937 Grayling, Michigan.
The River
Yes, we'll gather by the river,
the beautiful, the beautiful river.
They say it runs by the throne of God.
This is where God invented fish.
… All the 5,000 birds on earth were created there.
… Even now they remember this divine habitat.
Shall we gather at the river, this beautiful river?
We'll sing with the warblers perched on his eyelashes.
– Jim Harrison, “The River,” from Dead Man’s Float. Copper Canyon Press. 2016,
Discovering epics . . .
Wednesday, December 10, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . Moderate to strong northerlies bring sunny skies and mid 50's to TulseyTown today, part of a five day roller-coaster in the forecasts. 50-60 highs, teens and 40 lows.
Creative acts aren't about knowing beforehand. They are acts of discovery. Even with a map, the map is not the territory.You've not been where you are in this moment, as you read between the letters and spaces of this note, the universe is creating itself anew – with you as co-creator.
Robert Reich makes a good case that Trump is losing it more and more. It’s one thing to read about his mental decline, another to see it. Posted today.
Trump on women. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse today.
How the “culture war” is waged. – Heather Cox Richardson, in today's Letters From An American.
The poet Emily Dickinson was born on this day in 1830 Amherst, Massachusetts.
Kenneth Branagh is 65 today. The multi-laureate actor, writer and director was born in 1960, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
And, today in 1962 One of the most celebrated epics in the history of cinema, Lawrence of Arabia, had its world premiere.
Stay tuned for a really cold Sunday.