Diamonds are enough. . .
Sunday, January 25, 2026. It's Sol's day . . . Overnight snow storm brought another 6” on top of yesterday's 3” deposit. Bitter cold Northerlies brought a 6º morning with a wind chill at -11º. Forecasts for TulseyTown today indicate the snows decreasing with Northerlies holding the wind chill to the single digits.
You are not your thoughts. You are the observer of your thoughts.
Psychology and neuroscience generally agrees that the internal voice is not just a passive commentator; it is an active agent. It has the power to alter our neural connectivity, shift our physiology, and ultimately, construct our experience of reality. If our internal narrative is rooted in fear and separation, we live in a fearful, separate world. If it is rooted in wisdom and interconnectivity, we live in a world of possibility. – Eva Detko, PhD, MSc, BA (Hons), IAHT
Enough. – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought, 1.25.26
Novelist Virginia Woolf was born on this date in 1882, London, England.
The English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer W. Somerset Maugham was born today in 1874, Paris, France. His short story “The Razor's Edge” was adapted to one of my fave films with Bill Murray in one of his most serious leading roles. Catch it if you can, if you haven't.
And today is the birthdate of Robert Burns. The national poet of Scotland was born on this date in 1759, Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Comin thro' the rye
Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro' the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body —
Need a body cry.
Oh Jenny 's a' weet poor body
Jenny 's seldom dry,
She draigl't a' her petticoatie
Comin thro' the rye.
– Robert Burns
Yesterday Neil Diamond celebrated his 85th birthday. The legendary one of the best-selling singer/songwriter/musicians in history, he was born in 1941, Brooklyn, New York.
Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman honored Diamond in their recent film “Song Sun Blue” now up for multiple Academy Awards. Caroline was truly sweet.
Tide Turn on a Winter Day
Wine dark sea
red dawn sky.
Forever ago a glass calm.
Magenta sails
on a flat earth sea,
incomprehensible as death,
birth bewildering
as the woman bringing it
from wherever the wind is born,
inconceivable as a round earth
conceived
in the imagination
of a mother's child
on an ice covered hillside shore
playing with stones.
– jab
Winter's disregulation is a witches' brew . . .
Saturday, January 24, 2026. It's the Satyr's day . . . Heavy snow overnight continues today in TulseyTown. As I write at this 7:30 a.m. hour, it is 8º with strong Northerlies and a wind chill at -7º. The forecast high for the day is 15º. About 2” of a wet snow is on the ground with another inch in the forecast for the rest of the day. Another 5 to 8” is indicated in the overnight tonight forecasts. Another 1 to 3” is predicted for Sunday morning, ending around Noon. On my calendar: staying in, staying warm, staying dry.
Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life. – Jack Kornfield
Today in1 848 the California Gold Rush began.
Novelist Edith Wharton was born on this day in 1862 New York City.
Winter can disregulate most all our mental and physical systems, including but not limited to S.A.D. (Seasonal Affective Disorder).
Actors Are Careful This Time of Year
The winds are swirling tonight from the North.
It has the odor of that cave in the Hebrides
where witches gathered.
You know the ones: the three who foretold
the demise of the Thane of Cawdor –
so accurately that years and years
and yet more years after
Shakespeare immortlized them –
probably on a day like this one –
it has become a bad omen
in theatre circles to even mention
the Thane's name
inside the holy space
except when Shakespeare
commands it.
– jab
Cloud pointing . . .
Friday, January 23, 2026. It's Frigg's (Freya's) day . . . The forecasted major Winter Storm has begun. At this 8 a.m. hour of this composition, the wind chill from gusty – 20 -30 mph – Northerlies is 13º. Snow is indicated in the forecasts to begin in TulseyTown later tonight. Wind chill tomorrow morning is predicted at -5 below. 6-10 inches of heavy snow are likely before the storm moves out of the area mid-day Monday. This major storm is forecasted to impact some 230 million of us before it eases up. That will include my besties in Texas, Kansas, Ohio, Massachusettes, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
“A finger points at the moon.” It's easy to confuse the teachings or texts that guide us toward awakening with awakening itself. Don’t confuse the finger for the moon. There is no substitute for direct experience. You want peace: Be peace.
For quite some time now, Trump has been embarrassing and growing extremely dangerous. No mores than during his speech at Davos. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
We’re in a far more dangerous and violent stage of Trump’s regime. What should we do to stop it? – Robert Reich, The fascist loose in America,
The Fourth Amendment doesn’t change just because ICE says so. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Musk's Starlink system has NASA AND ESP up at night envisioning nightmare scenarios There are currently about 40,000 objects in space tracked by space surveillance networks like NASA and the European Space Agency, and many more aren’t tracked. The number of objects in space capable of causing “catastrophic damage” is estimated to be over 1.2 million.
Today is the birthdate of Django Reinhardt. The gypsy guitar master was born in 1910, Liberchies, Belgium.
Also born on this date was the French painter Édouard Manet. He was born in 1832, Paris, France.
Tombs and Wombs
The hills gather like a body
that has tried and failed
. . .
even the clouds pass
without leaving anything behind. . .
– Alicia Cook, “Tombs and Wombs,” in Rattle's Ekphrastic Challenge.