Tuesday, November 10, 2026. It's the Tiw's day . . . Easy Southerlies, sunny with a few clouds and low 70's are in today's 8a.m. forecasts for GreenCountry and TulseyTown after Noon.
What is ours to do? – Randy Woodley, in Meditations, at the Center for Action and Contemplation.
It’s astonishing how barricaded we can get against the world that needs us. – Tina Lear, “Crying Baby on a Plane,” Tricycle.
Yesterday was the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht – “the night of broken glass” – in 1938 Germany.
Yesterday was poet Anne Sexton’s birthday, born in 1928 Newton, Massachusetts.
Her Kind
I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light:
lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.
A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.
Anne Sexton, “Her Kind,” To Bedlam and Part Way Back. Houghton Mifflin 1960. Read the whole poem here.
And yesterday in 1967 the first issue of Rolling Stone was published
Today is the birthdate of monk and theologian Martin Luther. Born in 1483 Eisleben, Saxony [now in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany], he would spark the Protestant Reformation in Christianity.
Today in 1969 Sesame Street debuted on the National Educational Television network (later PBS) today in 1969.
The Welsh actor Richard Burton was born today in 1925 Pontrhydyfen, Wales.
And the poet Vachel Lindsay was born in 1879 Springfield, Illinois.
It's the birthdate for François Couperin. The French baroque composer was born on this day in 1668 Paris, France.
And today in 1975 The American freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 aboard; its mysterious demise inspired a Gordon Lightfoot song that helped make it the most famous shipwreck in the Great Lakes.