Fantastic fog . . .

Tuesday, January 6, 2026. It's Tiw's day … a sunny day in TulseyTown. Forecasts indicate moderate Northerlies and mid 70's for the afternoon.

So, what is “mindfulness?” Mindfulness is the present moment ....a direct and wordless experience of presence. Mindfulness is not a thought, but rather attention itself. It is open-ness without agenda. Thoughts/words are “doing.” Like the words you are reading. Mindfulness is “being”–like the spaces between these words and the space remaining at the end of this sentence before the next one

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Higher education and the future markedly changed by Ai.

Sophie Strand and scientific animism. A fascinating read In Make Me Good Soil, posted yesterday 1.4.26

Trump's Venezuelan quagmire. – Robert Reich, online.1.4.25

Birthdays

Novelist Elizabeth Strout turns 70 today. She was born in 1956 Portland, Maine.

It's the birthdate of E.L. Doctorow. The novelist, editor, and professor was born on this day in 1931 the Bronx, New York.

It's also the birthdate of Carl Sandburg. The poet, historian, novelist, and folklorist was born in 1878, Galesburg, Illinois.

Fog

The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

– “Fog,” published in Chicago Poems, Henry Holt and Company, 1916

And its the birthdate of composer Max Bruch. He was born in 1838, Cologne, Germany.

Josh Bell creates reality from a fantasy.