Birds: Civilized . . .
Tuesday, November 25, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . Forecasts indicate moderate Northwesterlies and clouds for TulseyTown . The sun may make an appearance this afternoon along with upper 50's. The season's first lengthy cold spell settles into the area overnight and into tomorrow for at least ten days with overnight freezing temperatures, slight rain chances this coming weekend and maybe a touch of snow by next Monday.
Where have all the birds gone? – Andrew Rothman, Environment America, 9.30.25
Why are the ultra-rich buying up so much of the media? Vanity may play a part, but there’s a more pragmatic — some might say sinister — reason. – Robert Reich, A Toxic Combo, 11.25.25
Asphalt Civilization
A full winter moon howls from the West
from behind the mountain where the sun will rise
fourteen hours from now. A cold night
to be followed tomorrow by clouds and snow.
Deer on the East slope across the valley
stare into the occasional headlights
leaving silver river ribbons burned into retinas
blinded to our asphalt civilization
and my little cabin.
Dawn stills their confusion making it safer,
hour by hour, from those wolves
whose solos and chorales name the howling moon.
They know, the deer know, and after many,
many moons I've come to know the howling is mutual.
The rising and falling a choreographed dance
as ancient as Lascaux’s caves.
– jab
Thanks . . . in advance .
Monday, November 24, 2025. It's the Moon's day . . . Hiding behind clouds until tomorrow afternoon, which bring on/off/on rain – so say the forecasts for TulseyTown. Moderate Southeasterlies are to be cool, into the upper 50's.
The Week Ahead – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
How to get rid of “Citizen's United.” – Robert Reich, online, 11.24.25
Republicans desperately want to change the conversations around the Thanksgiving dinner table. But, they can't. – Matt Kerbel, “A Thanksgiving Thought,” in Wolves and Sheep, 11.25.25
The Putin/Trump “peace” plan for Ukraine. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American, 11.24.25
Your fave French painter, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born in1864, Albi, France.
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published on this day in 1859.
Gratitude, real thankfulness, is a mental return to the moment of need—a physical, spiritual or emotional need…. Gratitude requires returning to that moment of need even after the need has been met. – Fr. Richard Rohr, “Do I Say Thanks?” , in Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation.
Do you have needs being met in this moment of which you are unaware?
Moons, not suns . . .
Sunday, November 23, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . and Southerlies return to TulseyTown. Forecasts indicate a somewhat warmer day in the mid 60's along with a mix of sun and clouds.
The first episode of the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who was broadcast today in 1963.
And in 1936, The first issue of Life Magazine was published. It became a pioneer in photojournalism.
Most average working Americans abide by laws and norms. Most are kind and decent. But there is growing rot at the top of our system. And its stench can no longer be ignored. – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought, 11.23.25
It's the week of Thanksgiving, and as we approach the holidays, some of us are longing for something … more. – Marianne Williamson, on Transform, 11.18.25
We are moons, not suns, except in our ability to pass on the light. Our life is not our own; yet, at some level, enlightened people know that their life has been given to them as a sacred trust. – Fr. Richard Rohr, “Gratitude and Humility”, Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 11.23.25
Dark Trees
On a clear night dark trees
against a dark sky
all but disappear.
Tonight, cloud cover
filters the city's lights.
A fog curtain listens
as if after the last note
of the Moonlight Sonata
has drifted into where
there ought to be the moon.
Fall leaves on that eighty-foot
Sycamore across the street
stand out in place of missing stars.
– jab