Quite a woman . . .
Sunday, November 9, 2025. It's Sol's day … Forecasts for Tulsey Town indicate Strong Northerlies with wind chills in the 30's throughout the day, with real temperatures in the mid 40's. A cloudy morning is to give way to generally sunny skies for the afternoon. A hard freeze is predicted by tomorrow morning.
The Monarch's are migrating.
Believer, follower, or no, it's in the popular culture : The planet Mercury turns retrograde today (until the 29th). Generally speaking – so it is said – be especially careful with agreements and contracts, and ensure clear communication. You may need to revise things once Mercury is direct again. Murphy's Law may be present.
Today is the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht: “The night of broken glass” in 1938 throughout Nazi Germany.
On this day in 1989, the leader of the East German Communist Party made a quiet announcement that the Berlin Wall would be opened for “private trips abroad.” Within days, millions of East Germans flooded into West Berlin, and citizens began to pull the wall to pieces.
Belief in God is on the rise among young people in the West. As many seek meaning beyond digital life and consumer culture, old theologies are in vogue. But Iris Murdoch warned against seeing religious faith as the only route to a spiritual life...her answer was to reintroduce transcendence without reintroducing theism. Against both nihilism and moral relativism, she insists on the existence of the Good—The Good, though impersonal, demands humility, patience, and unselfing—the virtues once cultivated by religion. – Miles Leeson, “Transcendence without theism,” at iai news, 10.20.2025
In his teachings, and in the Sermon on the Mount in particular, Yeshua, by putting the picture in the largest possible frame, called into question all smaller frames and invited his hearers into a radical transformation of consciousness. Many were not ready for it—nor are many of us today. – Richard Rohr, Meditation, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 11.02.25
What we missed in Sunday School. – Elias Chacour, in Meditation, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 11.7.25
Two poets birthdays: The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in 1914, Swansea, Wales, and Anne Sexton was born today in 1928 Newton, Massachusetts.
Her Kind
I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night
…
A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.
– Anne Sexton, “Her Kind,” From The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1981.
A better deal . . .
Saturday, November 8, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . TulseyTown's easy morning breezes are forecasted to shift to Moderate Northerlies as a cold front moves through the area. The afternoon 70's are to drop into the 40's overnight and remain there Sunday until falling into a hard freeze Monday morning. Wind chills Sunday are forecasted to be in the 30's,
“The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.” — André Gide (1869–1951), “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality.”
Today is the birthdate of Margaret Mitchell. The author of Gone with the Wind was born in 1900 Atlanta, Georgia.
Dorothy Day – the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement – was born on this date in 1897 Brooklyn, New York.
One Farmer's Almanac gone, The Old Farmer's Almanac remains.
The repercussions from Tuesday’s vote, in which Democratic candidates were victorious across the country, continue to echo. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American, 11.7.25
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president on this day in 1932. In the heart of the “Great Depression, he offered Americans “a new deal” they overwhelmingly could not refuse.
Snowflakes, unite!
Friday, November 7, 2025. It's Freya's day . . . Moderate Northerlies are in the forecasts for TulseyTown today, bringing a cooling trend. Sunny skies and mid 70's this afternoon and Saturday are indicated. Downright cold Sunday with a hard freeze Monday morning.
If you can awaken inside the familiar and discover it strange, you need never to leave home.
Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser, Braided Creek, A Conversation in Poetry, Copper Canyon Press, 2003.
Writer Albert Camus was born on this day in 1913 Mondovi, Algeria.
“O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.” – Camus, L’été, first published 1942.
It’s the birthdate of Marie Curie. She was born in 1867, Warsaw, Congress Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire.
Billy Graham was also born on this day in 1918, Charlotte, North Carolina.
What should count as “news” when reporting about Trump? – Robert Reich, online, 11.6.25
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani delivered more than an acceptance/victory speech. Mamdani called for New Yorkers to “leave mediocrity in our past,” and for Democrats to “dare to be great.” When Mamdani said, “New York, this power, it’s yours,” and told New Yorkers, “[t]his city belongs to you,” millions of Americans heard a reminder that they, too, are powerful and that the government of the United States of America belongs to them. Heather Cox Richardson reflected in her Letters From An American.
Every avalanche begins with the movement of a single snowflake, and my hope is to move a snowflake. – Thomas Frey
And, Joni Mitchell is 82 today. The music experimentalist and maybe the best songwriter ever was born November 7, 1943, Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada.