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.
A slow horse has miles to go . . .
Sunday, March 8, 2026. It's Sol's day. . . Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate a lovely Spring with moderate Southerlies, sunny skies and mid 70's.
Generosity isn’t giving away all your material possessions; it is the mind being joyful and wanting to give. It is making an effort to give; it is going out of your way to be able to do it with your own efforts. – Geshe Sopa
Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), day (March 8) honouring the achievements of women and promoting women’s rights. A national holiday in numerous countries, it has been sponsored by the United Nations (UN) since 1975.
There is a contagion of violence in the world; it’s spreading like a disease. But grace is also contagious. – Shane Claiborne, “Choosing Grace Not Violence,” in Meditations, at The Center for Action and Contemplation.
Trump: It ain't gonna happen. – Washington Post: Intelligence report.
One of the pioneers of creative nonfiction, John McPhee is 95 today. The Pulitzer Prize writer was born in 1931 Princeton, New Jersey.
Today is also the birthdate of novelist Kenneth Grahame. The author of Wind in the Willows was born in 1859 Edinburgh, Scotland.
“The Last Great Race” kicks off this weekend, so Alaskans are gathering for the Iditarod. For the Lower 48ers reading, the Iditarod is a 50-year-old competition where dog mushers and their teams race from Anchorage to Nome through 1,000 miles of the Bush. It is a celebration of the endurance of Alaskan spirit. Officially, the race kicks off in Willow, Alaska today — they say the course is roughly 1,049 miles (fitting as Alaska is the 49th state).
And, yesterday, in 1923 Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” was published in The New Republic magazine.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
– Robert Frost. This poem is in the public domain.