Quite a woman . . .
Sunday, November 9, 2025. It's Sol's day … Forecasts for Tulsey Town indicate Strong Northerlies with wind chills in the 30's throughout the day, with real temperatures in the mid 40's. A cloudy morning is to give way to generally sunny skies for the afternoon. A hard freeze is predicted by tomorrow morning.
The Monarch's are migrating.
Believer, follower, or no, it's in the popular culture : The planet Mercury turns retrograde today (until the 29th). Generally speaking – so it is said – be especially careful with agreements and contracts, and ensure clear communication. You may need to revise things once Mercury is direct again. Murphy's Law may be present.
Today is the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht: “The night of broken glass” in 1938 throughout Nazi Germany.
On this day in 1989, the leader of the East German Communist Party made a quiet announcement that the Berlin Wall would be opened for “private trips abroad.” Within days, millions of East Germans flooded into West Berlin, and citizens began to pull the wall to pieces.
Belief in God is on the rise among young people in the West. As many seek meaning beyond digital life and consumer culture, old theologies are in vogue. But Iris Murdoch warned against seeing religious faith as the only route to a spiritual life...her answer was to reintroduce transcendence without reintroducing theism. Against both nihilism and moral relativism, she insists on the existence of the Good—The Good, though impersonal, demands humility, patience, and unselfing—the virtues once cultivated by religion. – Miles Leeson, “Transcendence without theism,” at iai news, 10.20.2025
In his teachings, and in the Sermon on the Mount in particular, Yeshua, by putting the picture in the largest possible frame, called into question all smaller frames and invited his hearers into a radical transformation of consciousness. Many were not ready for it—nor are many of us today. – Richard Rohr, Meditation, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 11.02.25
What we missed in Sunday School. – Elias Chacour, in Meditation, The Center for Action and Contemplation, 11.7.25
Two poets birthdays: The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in 1914, Swansea, Wales, and Anne Sexton was born today in 1928 Newton, Massachusetts.
Her Kind
I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night
…
A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.
– Anne Sexton, “Her Kind,” From The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1981.