A sky made of stone . . .

Thursday, December 4, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . Northerlies bring clouds toTulseyTown today, with upper 30s and the possibility for a few flurries or snow showers.

I awoke this morning

gifted with the insight

that I – like Jim Harrison –

had just completed half a year

blinded by the alphabet.

– jab

A super “Cold Moon” rises this evening.

The New York Times has sued the Pentagon over its policy restricting journalists, citing violation of the First Amendment.

Federal agents today arrested a suspect in a Jan. 6 pipe bomb investigation

The first Mars roaming robot research vehicle, Pathfinder, was launched on this day in 1966. The mission was a NASA/JPL project headed up by Donna Shirley, the first woman with an engineering degree at JPL among 2,000 men. I'm rather proud to say I am a friend. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her husband George who is also in my small circle of friends.

The pioneer of abstract art, Wassily Kandinsky was born on this day in 1866, Moscow, Russia.

Today is the birthday of poet Rainer Maria Rilke, born in 1875 Prague.

I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not ever complete the last one,
but I give myself to it.

I circle around God, that primordial tower.
I have been circling for thousands of years,
and I still don't know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song? — Rilke

– Rilke's Book of Hours, English version by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
Original Language German, Riverhead Books, 1997.

The moon can be a cold, harsh mistress.