Even if for a moment . . .

Monday, August 18, 2025. It's the Moon's day . . . TulseyTown forecasts indicate real temperatures above 100º today with moderate Southerlies and a slight chance for a stray thunder shower during the afternoon. Counting down to the season break next Monday.

Emotions…First of all, they are a gift from Creation so that we can touch reality by a way other than the salad scramble of experience. Inside the frame of the smaller self, we tend to make everything a big deal.

We’ve been taught to package our emotions like fast food—served quick, tidy, and with a smile. Americanized feelings. Digestible. Non-threatening. Always paired with productivity... [That] is how we sell emotional healing in the West—marketed like a self-improvement product...But what if the formula is the lie? – Allison Jeanette Briggs. “The Lie of Packaged Feelings.” Tiny Buddha, online, 8.12.25.

The Week Ahead from Joyce Vance's Civil Discourse.

What is clear from the summit is that Trump and Putin badly miscalculated the nature of power in democracies. – Heather Cox Richardson, posted last night in Letters From An American.

Why Trump will fail. The iron law of grovelers and those to whom they grovel. – Robert Reich, online, 8.18.25.

Roman Polanski turns 92 today. The filmmaker and screenwriter was born in 1933 Paris. Robert Redford is 89 today.

The legendary rock festival Woodstock ended today in 1969 near Bethel, New York It attracted some 400,000 fans.

Even if for a moment ...

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict, it is necessary that there is a place of inner silence and peace; not the peace of mere relaxation but the peace of inner clarity and love. – Thomas Merton