An ocean of ripples . . .

Wednesday, August 27, 2025. It's Odin's day … Forecasts indicate cool, rains for TulseyTown today and tomorrow. Moderate Southeasterlies and low 70's.

"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail," that's according to Theodore Dreiser whose birth was today in 1871 Terre Haute, Indiana.

The Osage Nation and ecologist author of “Blue Highways,” William Least Heat-Moon turns 86 today. He was born in 1939 Kansas City, Missouri.

And its the birthdate of our 36th President, Lyndon B. Johnson. LBJ, as he was called, was born today in 1908, Gillespie county, Texas,

No Bill! and that's good news from Joyce Vance in today's Civil Discourse.

This week: Celebrating 60 years of The Grateful Dead. They left an ocean of ripples.

The Well of Stars

… it takes a little while to get there,

… step by step,

the way

the poets through time

generously gave themselves

to us,

walking like pilgrims

through doubt,

combining their fear,

their fierceness and their faith...

– David Whyte, “The Well of Stars,” in The House of Belonging, Many Rivers Press, 1997.