How happy can a monkey be?

Friday, November 28, 2025. It's Frigg's (Freya's) Day … Moderate to strong Southerlies bring increasing cloud cover to TulseyTown today ahead of rain chances and a hard freeze overnight. Upper 50's this afternoon.

I believe in … the fluttering unknown gods that I nearly see …

struggling to stay alive in a world that grinds them underfoot.

– Jim Harrison, “I Believe.” In Search of Small Gods. Copper Canyon Press, 2010.

Polar night has settled onto Northernmost Alaska.

Birthdays

Novelist and physicist Alan Lightman is 77 today. The physicist, writer and humanist was born on this day in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1948

French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, was born in 1908 Brussels, Belgium.

Poet and scuptor William Blake was born in 1757 London .

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.

– Wm. Blake

The Grand Ole Opry premiered on this date in 1925 Nashville, Tennessee.

And, Randy Newman turns 82 today. The inventive composer, singer, sonwriter and pianist was born in 1943, Los AngelesCalifornia.

Happy as a monkey in a monkey tree . . .