Snow Moon revelations . . .
Monday, February 2, 2026. It's the Moon's day … and indeed it is. The “Snow Moon” is full tonight over TulseyTown. Today's forecasts indicate a sunny morning and a cloudy afternoon with 60's ahead of a week of mostly sunny 60's.
When the moon has horns the weather changes.
Today is Groundhog Day, in the United States and Canada.
It's the birthday of James Joyce, born in 1882, Dublin, Ireland. It's also the day in in 1922 that his now famous novel Ulysses was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach, the owner of the bookstore Shakespeare and Company. Ulysses is now considered a masterpiece tipping point of the modern age.
The No Kings movement just announced that there will be another No Kings Day on March 28 — and given the Trump administration's escalating brutality and authoritarianism, it needs to be the biggest and most powerful No Kings Day yet.
Miller’s white nationalism is not the concept on which this nation was built. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
America, the greatest country in the world? Cautionary note: there are numerous four-letter words in this piece from Aron Sorkin's series “The Newsroom.” That said, every American could benefit from viewing it. – found and sent to me by my genius friend-in-awe Raymon Pearcey following a long conversation over Sunday coffee.
This and every moment . . .
Sunday, February 1, 2026. It's Sol's day . . . and forecasts for TulseyTown indicate easy Southerlies bringing Sol’s sunny skies and upper 40's to the afternoon. Tomorrow provides a preview of a week's worth of mild 60's.
Karma means that past thoughts and actions have led to this moment. It also means that this moment is the birthplace of the next. What we think, how we feel, what we do—it all matters.
Confessions of a writer who also insists she is Christian. – Liz Charlotte Grant, “Beyond literalism,” in Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation.
Trees grow from their roots. The roots send up green shoots. This past week, green shoots emerged. – Robert Reich, “Green Shoots,” on Sunday Thoughts, online for today, 12.1.26
Today is the anniversary in 1961 of the first “sit-in” that sparked the Civil Rights Movement in America.
And, it's the birthday of the poet/novelist/playwriter Langston Hughes. He was born in 1902 Joplin, Missouri.
No time for meditation? For prayer? There are no “bad” buddhists. "Bad Buddhist" really means being authentic. It’s about showing up as you are and giving what you can give – two minutes of silence – amid the chaos of life. Then, going through it all aware of each moment. That’s the practice. Why struggle to fit something into your already busy life when your busy life is where the dharma is? – bell hooks
Sun Song
Sun and softness,
Sun and the beaten hardness of the earth,
Sun and the song of all the sun-stars
Gathered together,—
Dark ones of Africa,
I bring you my songs
To sing on the Georgia roads.
– Langston Hughes, “Sun Song” is in the public domain.
On a Glass mountain…
Saturday, January 31, 2026. It's the Satyr's day . . . A really cold day is in the forecasts along with sunny skies and calm winds. The high this afternoon in TulsyTown is projected to be only in the 20's. A warmer Sunday and Monday, with a weeks worth of unseasonably warm conditons starting Thursday.
Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk and author of over 50 books, was born in 1915 Prades, France.
Can there be any doubt where wars come from and where peace comes from, when the children of this world, excluding God from their peace conferences, only manage to bring about greater and greater wars the more they talk about peace?” – Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain, Hartcort Brace. 1948
Why indict Don Lemon? – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
The [Trump] administration is appealing to the MAGA racist and Christian nationalist base by demonstrating that it is willing to violate the Constitution to impose MAGA’s ideology on the nation …. That's what the arrests of Don Lemon and several demonstrators is all about. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American, posted last night for this morning.
Birthdays
The prolific and controversial author Norman Mailer born in 1923 Long Branch, New Jersey.
Musicologist Alan Lomax was born in 1915 Austin, Texas. He discovered Lead Belly, and introduced America to Woody Guthrie among many.
And, composer Philip Glass turns 89 today. He was born in 1937, Baltimore, Maryland.
On a Glass mountain.