The earth is a living thing . . .

It's Odin's day . . . TulseyTown continues a cold march toward Thanksgivings . . .

President Joe Biden turns 82 today. He was born in 1942 Scranton, Pennsylvania.

To save the country at the midterms, resulting in a Democratic-led House and Senate, would be a significant check and balance on Trump's bloated and dangerous executive branch. Not an easy task. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse

Today in 1820 The American whaling ship Essex was rammed by a sperm whale and later sank, inspiring the climactic scene in Herman Melville's Moby Dick, 31 years later in 1851.

Life, intelligent or otherwise, originating on a different world could follow entirely different trajectories. Astrobiology researchers have made slow but steady progress in mapping out how to rigorously gather and evaluate data that would be relevant to the very open question of how life beyond our world might make its appearance. One of the larger obstacles has been what is called “the giggle factor,” but that is giving way to scientific rigor. – Adam Frank, writing in Aeon, 19nov24.

The earth is a living thing. Mountains speak, trees sing, lakes can think, pebbles have a soul, rocks have power. – Henry Crow Dog.

...cranberries are terribly exciting. They are the Robert Frost of fruits, the Flaubert, the Frank Lloyd Wright, the Gabriel Fauré. – Garrison Keillor,