Thursday, November 5, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . with a better than even chance we'll hear his thunder this afternoon. Forecasts for GreenCountry indicate Northerlies bringing mid 60's and possible rain to TulseyTown, late afternoon and into the evening.
Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day. – Kent Nerburn
And so, one era passes and another begins. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Our British friends are celebrating GuyFawks Day today.
Today is the birthdate of Eugene V. Debs. The labor organizer and Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president five times between 1900 and 1920, was born in 1855, Terre Haute, Indiana.
Vivien Leigh was born on this day in 1913 Darjeeling, India. The British actress achieved motion picture immortality by playing two of American literature’s most celebrated Southern belles, Scarlett O’Hara and Blanche DuBois.
It's also the birthdate of Roy Rogers (no relation to my homey Will). Film and television hero for many in my generation. Rogers was born Leonard Franklin Slye in 1911 Cincinnati, Ohio.
Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize for Literature on this day in 1930. It was the first given to an American. His efforts as a novelist and social critic punctured American complacency with his broadly drawn, widely popular satirical novels.
And, the poet Ella Wheeler was born on this day on a 1850 farm outside Johnstown, Wisconsin.
The world of thought, writing, and poetry is where one works in an invisible realm. When you work in the mind, only sometimes are there the slightest glimps of the ripples of your effort. To sense the invisible harvest in that territory requires great patience and self-trust – and training of the inner eye for those invisible realms where thoughts can grow and feelings put down their roots. – John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom, Harper Collins, 1997.