Swans in any season are not Bohr-ing

Tuesday, October 7, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . Forecasts for TulseyTown indicate moderate Northerlies and much cooler conditions today and tomorrow. Today, mostly cloudy and mid 70's.

Don’t be afraid of what you are feeling. You don't have to act on it. Open to what is.

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 has been awarded to three U.S. university based professors.

Speaking of Nobel physics … today is the birth date of Niels Bohr. The Nobel Prize laureate physicist was born in 1855 Copenhagen, Denmark.

Today is the birthday of the prolific naturalist, novelist poet, and essayist Diane Ackerman who turns 77 today. The author of A Natural History of the Senses and The Zookeeper's Wife among many – as in many others – was born in 1948 Waukegan, Illinois

Sherman Alexie is 59 today. The Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker was born on the Spokane Indian Reservation in 1966 Wellpinit, Washington,

It's also the birthday of Yo-Yo Ma. The celebrated French-born American cellist turns 70 today. He was born in1955, Paris, France.

If you didn’t already know:

Trump doesn’t like data. He eschews facts. He wants investors and consumers — and everyone else — to be in the dark, because then he can lie without fear of factual contradiction. He can create even more of a fantasy world. He can pretend that he’s been wildly successful even when he’s been a terrible failure. – Robert Reich, Turning Out the Lights, online 10.7.25

Trump isn't alone in his distaste of facts, data, and reality. His on again/off again bro-pal Vladimir Putin is 73 today. The Russian president was born in 1952, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now St. Petersburg), Russia.

What Washington needs is four feet of snow and two weeks of minus-40 lows and let the gentleman sit in his Evil Office and think these things through more clearly. – Garrison Keillor, The Perils of a Summer September, online 10.3.25.

The Swan of any season . . .