James Bethel James Bethel

One: Not Two . . .

Friday, February 6, 2026. It's Frigg's (Freya's) day . . . Sunny skies and upper 60's with moderate Northerlies are in the TulseyTown forecasts today.

What's congress doing with Robert Reich's prostate? – Some good news.

TulseyTown's Starship Records and Tapes has closed. Another legendary icon, gone.

Tom Brokaw is 86 today. The television journalist anchored the NBC Nightly News for more than two decades — from 1982 to 2004 — was born in 1940 Webster, South Dakota.

It's also the birthday of François Truffaut. The French film critic, director, and producer who pioneered the movement known as the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) was born in 1932, Paris, France.

Babe Ruth was born today in 1895, Baltimore, Maryland.

And, it's Bob Marley's birthday. The reggae icon was born on this day in 1945, Nine Miles, St. Ann, Jamaica.

Staying apart, separate, distinct, afraid to mix, is the mistake of our world. – Woody Guthrie

The cure for the mistake of the world.

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Enough already . . .

Thursday, February 5, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . and previews of Spring are in the forecasts. Moderate Westerlies, sunny skies, upper 60's afternoon. Did I say ”previews”? The first shoots of jonquils were up this morning in the front flowerbed of my small TulseyTown cottge

Life keeps asking us a single question: Can you meet me as I am? – JackKornfield, “Bowing to What Is” in All In This Together. St. Martin's Essentials, 2025.

You know what’s going on as well as I do: Trump is justifiably worried about the 2026 midterms...Trump figures that now is the time to try to fix the midterm elections. – Robert Reich, Could Trump Really “Take Over” the Midterm Elections? Online.

“Just the facts:” Repubs are in full-out-panic. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

Christopher Guest is 78 today. The American and British actor, comedian, screenwriter and director was born in 1948 New York City.

Playwright and screenwriter John Guare is 88. He was born in 1938 New York City.

And, it's the birthdate of novelist William S. Burroughs. A prolific experimentalist, he was born in 1914 St. Louis, Missouri.

Luminesence is a multi-part series created by and for women focusing on sexuality. Informative and empowering. Reader, regardless of your gender, the series is a definite worthy. IMO, of course.

There is always more than enough. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation.

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Eternal wisdom . . .

Wednesday, February 4, 2026. It's Odin's day . . . Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate moderate Northerlies continue with clouds and the high barely above 50º – a blustery reminder of what we are leaving behind. Previews of Spring start tomorrow.

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries. – Prince

Today is the birthday of Rosa Parks. The iconic figure of the American Civil Rights movement was born today in 1913 Tuskegee, Alabama.

Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released in U.S. theatres on this day in 1937.

Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning play Our Town opened on Broadway today in 1938.

Betty Friedan, the co-founder (among several others) of The National Organization for Women – N.O.W. – was born today in 1921, Peoria, Illinois.

In the conflict between reality and white nationalist ideology, reality appears to be gaining ground. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

Music is essential to being human. – Jeff Krasno, “Music Makes Everyone Feel The Same,“ Commune, 1.31.26

Spotify has 100 million songs. If you played a different song every 3 minutes, 24/7, it would take you 570 years to hear them all once. And by then, they'd have added 50 billion more. Nobody will ever hear all the music. Not you. Not anyone. You are falling behind by 99,520 songs every single day. – Kim Komando, The Current, 2.1.26

The Eternal Song: an invitation. The link is to the trailer of the short film of the same name. There is an email requirement for the entire film (12 minutes) but the donation amount can be $0.00. A worthy break for indigenous wisdom.

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