Routine isn't rapid . . .

Wednesday, October 14, 2026. It's Odin's day . . . and Fall has finally fallen across GreenCountry. Forecasts indicate Easterlies, mid 70's and rain all day today and tomorrow for TulseyTown. The weekend: clear and cool in the 60's.

Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. – Anne Lamott

Feeling [lost] at home. – FYI from Brené Brown.

Today is the birthdate of poet E.E. Cummings, born in 1894 Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The 34th U.S. President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was born on this day in 1890 Denison, Texas.

Following the money – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letter$ From An American.

Routine maintenance? . . .Not. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

next to of course god america i

“next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims’ and so forth oh
say can you see by the dawn’s early my
country ’tis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language even deafanddumb
thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry
by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-
iful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?”

He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water

– e.e. cummings, “next to of course god america,” Liveright Publishing, 1926; now an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company,