Number “one” on my list . . .

Wednesday, September 10, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . and the warming trend continues in TusleyTown. Forecasts indicate easy Southerlies, sun, clouds, and upper 80's. The mailbox was overflowing this morning…

Trump may try to declare that “there is a threat to the national sovereignty of the United States" in order to claim “emergency powers to protect the federal elections going forward,” overriding the Constitution’s clear designation that states alone have control over elections. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American, 9.8.25

The Supreme Court is playing “Calvinball.” “This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules, “We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.” – Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson.

[T]he president has ordered killings in international waters. Eleven people are dead, not through due process but by fiat. The defense secretary boasts about it on television. And the president will face no consequences....This is no longer abstract. The law has been rewritten in real time: a president can kill, and there is no recourse. That is not strength. That is authoritarianism. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American, 9.10.25

Joyce Vance and Heather Cox Richardson in conversation. Facts mean nothing to Trump, but everything to these historically grounded essayists. 9.9.25

We need a whole-systems approach to our health-care, one that recognizes that health is not simply the outcome of personal choices and bio-hacks but the product of collective conditions. – Jeff Krasno, Health Is A Commons, posted 9.9.25

Johns Hopkins has been hosting a series of conversations on Ai, present and future. The most recent focused on how Ai could transform the future of medicine. Long but worthy. Check it out, if you are curious.

Ken Wilber's latest book – Finding Radical Wholeness – has just been released in paperback. If you are unfamiliar with Ken, he's one of the leading philosophers of our time. In every book, Wilber integrates the wisdom of spirituality, psychology, shadow work, science, and integral theory with application to a specific concern. Always challenging, worth the time.

And, today is Mary Oliver's birthday. At the top of my list of fave poets to read every day, she was born in 1935, Maple Heights, Ohio.