Monday, November 2, 2026. It's the Moon's day . . .8 a.m. forecasts for GreenCountry indicate strong thunderstorms developing. TulseyTown's afternoon, evening and overnight tonight may experience damaging winds, large hail and possibly a tornado with some storms. Strong Southerlies and upper 70's. Ten days ahead, transitioning into Okieland Fall – morning 40's, afternoon 60's.
Frontiersman Daniel Boone was born on this day near 1/34 Reading Pennsylvania
If Democrats win tomorrow. – Robert Reich, on Substack.
Impermanence teaches that things ripen, flower in their time, and fade away in a continuous cycle of beauty, being, becoming, and nonbeing. It teaches gratitude and appreciation for the unrepeating wonder of each day, each moment. – Valerie Brown, “Beauty, being, and becoming,” in Tricycle.
To walk an inter-spiritual path is about seeking and finding the Love that unifies all paths and affirms our essential interconnectedness. – Mirabai Starr, The Definition of Interspirituality. On Substack.
I Happened To Be Standing
I don't know where prayers go
or what they do.
Do cat's pray while they sleep?
...
While I was thinking this
I happened to be standing
just outside my door
with my notebook open.
When a wren in the shrub
began to sing.
…
I wouldn't persuade you from
whatever you believe
or whatever you don't.
That's your business.
But I thought, of the wren's singing,
what could this be
if it isn't a prayer?
So I just listened
my pen in the air.
– Mary Oliver, “I Happened To Be Standing,” in A Thousand Mornings, Beacon Press, 2012. Read the complete poem here where there is also a link to Ms. Oliver reading the poem.