The unknown has an echo . . .

Friday, September 12, 2025. It's Freya's (Frigg's) day . . . Moderate Southerlies and sunny skies with heat indices in the upper 90's are in the forecasts for TulseyTown today.

Unknown is a word that always echoes, spoken or unspoken, through the hidden structures of our barely articulated lives. – David Whyte, Unknown, Consolations II, Many Rivers Press.

It was on this day in 1940 that four teenage boys discovered the Lascaux cave paintings

Journalist and editor H. L. Mencken was born today in 1880 Baltimore, Maryland.

The reaction by Trump to the horrendous assassination of Charlie Kirk has been as irresponsible as anything Trump has done to date, continuing to divide our nation. – Robert Reich,

Whitewashing Kirk's legacy: Lest we forget. – Oliver Willis, on Dailkos, 8.11.25

On political violence. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.

Epiphany

Because I cannot conceive

the whole of creation,

judging the bits,

pieces and parts with

these earth-bound eyes,

has become impossible.

That said – all these parts,

pieces, and bits somehow

just now united in a new light

lifting a burden unknown

before knowing

I was carrying.

– jab