Ending, beginning: “I don't know.”
Sunday, October 11, 2026. It's Sol's day . . . These carbon-copy days are to change midweek across GreenCountry. TulseyTown’s afternoon today looks like yesterday: Sunny, hot — near record — strong Southwesterlies, low 90’s.
In the end, we either love everything or there is reason to doubt that we love anything. – Fr Richard Rohr, Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation.
Ending or beginning? – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought.
[Miles Taylor] spent most of [his] career building DHS, including an agency that was created to protect Americans after 9/11 that has now put us under siege. ICE cannot continue to exist. Period. – Miles Taylor, Defiance. 10.10.26
Today is the birthdate of Eleanor Roosevelt, born in 1884, New York City. She was first lady (1933–45), the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States, and a United Nations diplomat, humanitarian, and one of the world’s most widely admired and powerful women in her time.
Drummer and bandleader Art Blakey was born on this day in 1919 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
No End to a Beginning
– after Frederic Chopin
All composition is a search / through thousands, / if not millions of trials /
– thoughts, notes, words, sounds / – arriving finally at the goal: / Simplicity. /
Yet, you cannot begin at the end.
– jab
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.” – Wisława Szymborska, from her Nobel speech.