Monday, December 1, 2025 If you build it . . .

It's the Moon's day . . . A freezing rain this morning made for some black ice on bridges and over passes in TulseyTown. Forecasts indicate light Northerlies maintaining cloudy skies and mid 30's throughout the day. Another hard freeze tomorrow morning with partly cloudy conditions.

Remember you are this universe and this universe is you. – Joy Harjo

Today in 1860 the first installment of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations was published.

The moment to pick a side has come. – Joyce Vance in Civil Discourse.

Although war conditions usually help a president’s popularity, Trump’s threat to attack Venezuela attracts the support of only 30% of Americans. Seventy percent oppose such military action. And there are legal quarters suggesting the attacks qualify as war crimes. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

The week ahead – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

Today in 1913 the auto industry as we know it came into being with the debut of world's first moving assembly line. It was used in manufacturing Model Ts at a Ford factory in Highland Park, Michigan; the innovation was the idea of owner Henry Ford, and it revolutionized the auto industry. His workers hated it.

How would humanity respond if we discovered an asteroid headed for Earth? NASA’s "Planetary Defenders" is a gripping documentary that delves into the high-stakes world of asteroid detection and planetary defense.

We are expressions in flux, shaped by environment, behavior, and choice. Epigenetics, neuroplasticity, and the microbiome have rewritten the story of what it means to be human. – Jeff Krasno, The Tao of Health, 11.29.25

A Senior's Villanelle

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History stores its memories in archives

like silent films whose stories you can’t hear.

The old relate their tales—the past revives.

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– Lynn Hess, “A Senior's Villanelle.” read the whole poem at Rattle, Issue #89 – Fall 2025.