Too close

Friday, January 9, 2026. It's Frigg's (Freya's) day . . . Easy Northerlies bring January weather to TulseyTown today. Forecasts indicate a sunny afternoon in the mid 50's.

Spend a few minutes each day with your “don't know” mind.

Renee Good is dead, and she shouldn’t be. Regardless of the changes in the House and Senate between now, the midterms, and thieir consecuences a year from now … nothing will help Renee Good. The warning signs were all there, and remain. But Trump and his administration doesn’t care. Ask the people around you who support Donald Trump if this is what they voted for. Before you lose the right to speak out loud … or get shot for asking. – Joyce Vance. in Civil Discourse.

The one step over the line. – in Letters From An American, by Heathe Cox Richardson.

Today is the birthdate of Simone de Beauvoir. The philosopher, novelist, feminist, public intellectual and activist, and one of the major figures in existentialism in post-war France, was born in 1908 Paris. Regarding her, Gloria Steinem said: “If any single human being can be credited with inspiring the woman’s movement, it’s Simone de Beauvoir.

Suddenly the star is no longer singular. – Sopie Strand, “Star-breaking,” in Make Me Good Soil, 1.9.26

Too Close-up.

Something's gone wrong with my eyeglasses.

Or my eyes. One or the other or both.

For the past several years there has been

a slow progression such that

my cock-eyed optimism has been

reduced to an astigmatic angst in

the myopia of this moment.

– jab