The new world . . .
Monday, September 8, 2025, It's the Moon's day . . . and the full Corn Moon begins to wane toward the Harvest, a month away. Moderate Southerlies are forecasted to bring a near repeat of yesterday's conditions to TulseyTown today. Mixed sun and clouds with low 80's. A week's worth of 90's begins Thursday.
It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. – John O'donohue.
The Week Ahead from Joyce Vance in Civil Discourse today.
Trump is panicking and exhibiting a new level of unhinged. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
The American Dictator – Joyce Vance in Civil Discourse posted yesterday.
Enduring structures of “power over,” like patriarchy, white supremacy, and unfettered capitalism, have limited most individuals’ power for so long that it’s difficult to imagine another way. Only very gradually does human consciousness come to a selfless use of power, the sharing of power, or even [its] benevolent use. – Fr. Richard Rohr, Meditations, The Center for Action and Meditation.
The Constitution needs defending. Calls for an Article V convention are gaining ground and must be stopped. I don't want to presume you don't know about this threat to our democracy. But if this is an issue about which you have questions, check out the issues at Common Cause.
Today is the birth date of Peter Sellers. The British comedic/character actor and Academy Award laureate was born in 1925, Southsea, England.
Bernie Sanders turns 84 today. The Senator from Vermont was born in 1941, Brooklyn, New York.
And. Composer Antonín Dvořák was born on this date in 1841, Nelahozeves, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now in Czech Republic].
"You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind" — Tsoknyi Rinpoche, in Open Heart, Open Mind, Harmony Publishers, 2012.
In every moment, a new world.