Incomprehesibly “Merry.”

Monday, December 15, 2025. It's the Moon's day . . . Moderate Southerlies return to TulseyTown with sun, a few clouds and upper 40's this afternoon. A warming trend is indicated in the forecasts for the next ten days with afternoon 50's and 60's.

Today in 1917, The Bill of Rights was adopted as a single unit of ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States, becoming the law of the land.

Today is the birthdate of Freeman Dyson. The mathematician, physicist, nuclear engineer, military advisor, arms control advocate, essayist, public intellectual, futurist, and visionary – not all at the same time but sometimes – was born in 1923 Crawthorne Village, Berkshire, England.

The poet Muriel Rukeyser was born on this day in 1931 New York City .

Trump's incomprehensible “Merry” Christmas. – Robert Reich, in Sunday Thought, 12.14.25

Yesterday in 1985 Wilma Mankiller became the first woman ever to serve as chief of a major Native tribe when she was sworn in as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation.

Speaking of yesterday, which we were, about sociocultural conditioning:

Ego can’t imagine how vast and intelligent, how much penetrating wisdom and love there is that transcends self, how much love there is that loves all—it can’t imagine any of this is possible because the ego is bound. Love transcends self. – Sunisa Manning

Much rheortic abounds these days around the word “woke” as if that trait were somehow a bad thing. So, what's the opposite of “woke?” Asleep.

Asleep and awake, I wake.
Never having written
What I have to say.
No poem offers of me
My central meaning,
I have danced to my naming
And danced away.

Now I move past my dreams.

– Muriel Rukeyser, “Asleep and Awake,” originally published in Poetry Magazine, January 1952.