Here's lookin' at everything . . .

Wednesday, November 26, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . Moderate Northerlies are in the forecasts for TulseyTown, bringing much cooler condtions in the low 50's and cloudy skies.

Every day, I am struck by all the ways in which we are reliving the 1890s.In that era too, consumers organized, using their buying power to affect politics. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.

There's trouble in toy-land. Ai bots hidden in holiday toys.

Cartoonist Charles Schulz (“Charlie Brown/Peanuts”) was born on this day in 1922 St. Paul, Minnesota.

The film Casablanca had its first showing today in 1942.

It's the birth date of Eugène Ionesco, the Romanian-born French dramatist who inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques and helped inaugurate the Theatre of the Absurd, was born in 1909 Slatina, Romania. FYI: Yers Trooley acted in Ionesdo's Rhinocéros, and Becket's Waiting for Godot, as well as directing that one.

Fresh Air – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

Standing in the Center of Your World

When we talk about mindfulness and awareness, we’re not talking about something stern, a discipline that we impose on ourselves so that we can clean up our act and be better and stand up straighter and smell nicer. It’s more that we practice some sense of loving-kindness toward microphones and bowls and our hands and each other and this room and all the doors we go in and out of. Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you’re always standing at the center of the world. – Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom Of No Escape, Shambhala Press, 2018.