One: Not Two . . .

Wednesday, July 2, 2025. It's Odin's day … Moderate Southerlies bring cloud cover to TulseyTown this afternoon. Otherwise, forecasts indicate upper 80's.

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ~Anaïs Nin Cited by Maria Kleine on TinyBuddha online.

Today in 1937, Amelia Earhart was last heard from, somewhere over the Pacific.

Hermann Hesse was born on this date. The author of Siddhartha was born in 1877 Calw, Germany,

Folk singer-songwriter Greg Brown was born in 1949 Fairfield, Iowa.

And its the birthdate of Polish poet Wisława Szymborska. The Nobel Lareate was born in 1923 Bnin, Poland.

Nothing Twice

Even if there is no one dumber,
if you’re the planet’s biggest dunce,
you can’t repeat the class in summer:
this course is only offered once.

– Wislawa Szymborska , “Nothing Twice,” from Poems New and Collected: 1957–1997, Harper Collins. 200 0. Original: Harcourt Brace & Company. 1998.