We are a ritual . . .

Tuesday, July 1, 2025. It's Tiw's day . . . Easy Northerlies are to bring a few clouds to an otherwise sunny day to TulseyTown today. The heat hammer of the past several weeks is easing, as is the humidity. Upper 80's.

Today is Canada Day.

Diana, princess of Wales was born on this day in 1961, Sandringham, Norfolk, England.

William Strunk Jr., The original author of The Elements of Style was born in 1869 Cincinnati, Ohio. The original was edited later by a student of his, Elwyn Brooks White, and is now called “The Strunk and White.”

And its the birth day of George Sand The French novelist was born Lucile Aurore Dupin in 1804 Paris.

A Ritual To Read To Each Other

. . . though we could fool each other, we should
consider—
lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the
dark.

For it is important that awake people be awake,
or a breaking line may discourage them back to
sleep;
the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe —
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.

– William Stafford, the poem “A Ritual To Read To Each Other,” is in The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems. Graywolf Press, 1988.