How happy can a monkey be?
Friday, November 28, 2025. It's Frigg's (Freya's) Day … Moderate to strong Southerlies bring increasing cloud cover to TulseyTown today ahead of rain chances and a hard freeze overnight. Upper 50's this afternoon.
I believe in … the fluttering unknown gods that I nearly see …
struggling to stay alive in a world that grinds them underfoot.
– Jim Harrison, “I Believe.” In Search of Small Gods. Copper Canyon Press, 2010.
Polar night has settled onto Northernmost Alaska.
Birthdays
Novelist and physicist Alan Lightman is 77 today. The physicist, writer and humanist was born on this day in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1948
French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, was born in 1908 Brussels, Belgium.
Poet and scuptor William Blake was born in 1757 London .
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
– Wm. Blake
The Grand Ole Opry premiered on this date in 1925 Nashville, Tennessee.
And, Randy Newman turns 82 today. The inventive composer, singer, sonwriter and pianist was born in 1943, Los AngelesCalifornia.
Happy as a monkey in a monkey tree . . .
...in the family of things...
Thursday, November 27, 2025. It's Thor's day … Light Easterlies make for a lovely Thanksgiving day for TulseyTown.
Indeed, today is Thanksgiving Day. Why Thursday?
The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in 1924 New York City.
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever we call it, whoever you are, we need one.
May all beings have happiness and the causes of happiness.
May all beings be free from sorrow and the causes of sorrow.
May all beings never be separated from the great happiness that is sorrowless.
May all leave attachment to dear ones and aversion to others and dwell in the equalness of all that lives. – Teaching from The Mahayana often referred to as the “heart-teaching” of Buddha.
Caring for nature: a thank-you from World Wildlife.org.
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in His heaven,
All's right with the world!
– Robert Browning, “Pippa's Song,” Pippa Passes.
Wild Geese
… the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese,
harsh and exciting – over and over
announcing your place in the family of things.
– Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese,” in Dream Work, Grove Atlantic,1986.
Here's lookin' at everything . . .
Wednesday, November 26, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . Moderate Northerlies are in the forecasts for TulseyTown, bringing much cooler condtions in the low 50's and cloudy skies.
Every day, I am struck by all the ways in which we are reliving the 1890s.In that era too, consumers organized, using their buying power to affect politics. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
There's trouble in toy-land. Ai bots hidden in holiday toys.
Cartoonist Charles Schulz (“Charlie Brown/Peanuts”) was born on this day in 1922 St. Paul, Minnesota.
The film Casablanca had its first showing today in 1942.
It's the birth date of Eugène Ionesco, the Romanian-born French dramatist who inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques and helped inaugurate the Theatre of the Absurd, was born in 1909 Slatina, Romania. FYI: Yers Trooley acted in Ionesdo's Rhinocéros, and Becket's Waiting for Godot, as well as directing that one.
Fresh Air – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Standing in the Center of Your World
When we talk about mindfulness and awareness, we’re not talking about something stern, a discipline that we impose on ourselves so that we can clean up our act and be better and stand up straighter and smell nicer. It’s more that we practice some sense of loving-kindness toward microphones and bowls and our hands and each other and this room and all the doors we go in and out of. Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you’re always standing at the center of the world. – Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom Of No Escape, Shambhala Press, 2018.