Dare to believe . . .

Monday, October 26, 2026. It's the Full Hunter's Moon day. Lovely Fall continues. GreenCountry and TulseyTown forecasts indicate a warm, sunny day with easy Southerlies and upper 70's this afternoon.

… behind the facade of your life, there is something beautiful and eternal happening. – John ODonohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom, Harper Collins, 1997.

Hillary Clinton is 79 today, born in 1947 Chicago, Illinois.

Greek novelist and poet Níkos Kazantzákis was born on this day in 1883, Iráklion, Crete.

The Week Ahead. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.

And so, here we are in the last days of the 2026 midterm campaign. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American. Posted for today.

Obama wisdom. – Robert Reich, Watch and Read, on Substack today.

If you're a writer of any ilk – journalist, poet, essayist, if ever you put pen or pencil to page – you know that the most powerful stories live in the places we're afraid to go. In a world that often dismisses the mystical and the intuitive . . . dare to write into the mystery . . . dare to believe that your ancestors, especially the ones whose voices were suppressed and whose stories were erased, are waiting for us to pick up the pen and tell the truth they couldn't speak. – after Mirabai Starr.